Download or read book Critical Essays on Thomas Hardy s Poetry written by Harold Orel and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of critical essays on the poetry of English poet and novelist Thomas Hardy covers Hardy and the art of poetry, Hardy and other poets, and a detailed views of specific texts. Includes an introduction addressing the relationship between Hardy's life and his poetry.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Mallikarjun Patil and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy : The Poet Is, Undoubtedly, An Original Critical Work Which Throws Ample Light On Hardy, A Poetic Genius, So Far Neglected. From Several Perspectives Dr. Patil Analyses And Interprets Hardy'S Poetic Ouvre In An Altogether New Critical Idiom. Hardy, As The Author Argues, Is More Of A Poet Than Of A Novelist. In Fact, He Began His Literary Career As A Poet And Ended It In Becoming A Poet Of High Order. Only For The Sake Of Livelihood, He Had To Write Novels In The Middle Phase. Throughout His Life, He Was Extremely In Love With Poetry.Historically Speaking, Hardy Is Aptly Considered To Be 'A Transition Poet' As He Is The Last Victorian And The First Modern. Like G.M. Hopkins, He Made Several Experiments In Writing Poetry And Firmly Established The Modern Trend. These Things About The Poet Are Not At All Taken Seriously By Many Of His Critics; But, There Are Some Like George Saintsbury, Donald Davie, Philip Larkin And James G. Southworth Who Constantly Urge That Good Hardy Critics Are Wanted.The Present Book Explores, In-Depth, The Truth And Beauty Of Hardy'S Poetry. What The Earlier Critics Have Missed Is, Here, Pain¬Stakingly Unearthed I.E., Hardy'S Views On Love, Nature, Society, Religion, God And Universe. His Evolutionary Meliorism And Scientific Humanism Are Discussed At Length. His Robust Optimism And Melancholic Demeanour Are Also Pointed At, With A Greater Clarity And Confidence. All Those Who Want To Understand Modern Poetry Must Begin By Reading This Truly Remarkable Book. Dr. Mallikarjun Patil Was Born In 1967 In A Village In Belgaum District In Karnataka. He Graduated From Karnatak Arts College, Dharwar, And Obtained His M. A. Degree From Karnatak University. He Also Did His Ph.D., On The Existential Philosophy In Thomas Hardy'S Poetry In 1995.At Present, He Is A Lecturer In The Department Of Studies In English, In Gulbarga University, Gulbarga. He Is A Genuine Scholar And A Writer. He Writes Critical Articles And Poems. His Radio-Talks Are Regularly On Broadcast From Air, Gulbarga. His Research Articles Are Published In Encyclopaedias And Journals. His Another Critical Work Hardy'S Poetry And Existentialism Is In Press. His Sole Ambition In Life Is To Become A Full-Fledged Writer In English.
Download or read book Trial by Ordeal written by Edward Neill and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trial by Ordeal takes a sharp look at central aspects of the critical reception of Thomas Hardy. It demonstrates how critical appropriations of Hardy's work often provide a simplifying, conventional, or conservative image of the writer, which a sophisticated view of his creative intentions by no means confirms. Edward Neill discusses the dangers inherent in interpreting Hardy's writings in terms of his life; the limitations of criticism that views his work as nostalgic reaction; approaches to the poetry; and the critical response to Jude the Obscure.
Download or read book Hardy written by Albert Joseph Guérard and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1963 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of often uncritical optimism, Hardy looked upon mankind with dark brooding wisdom. He dared to speak of sexual conflict of man's self-destructiveness, of grotesque mischance. Today his skepticism, his narrative inventiveness, and hostility to realism, and his psychological insight make him a congenial, even contemporary voice.
Download or read book The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy written by Geoffrey Harvey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work.
Download or read book Critical Essays on Thomas Hardy written by Dale Kramer and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-World-War-II criticism on a number of Hardy's novels is collected in this volume by an eminent Hardy scholar. Five of these sixteen essays are written as overall treatments of Hardy's broad themes, and the rest focus on individual novels. A variety of approaches are features, including feminist, Marxist and impressionist ones. One of the two original essays looks at his wife Emma's role as chief transcriber and offers a set of criteria for distinguishing her handwriting. Several essays examine Hardy's critical reception: once thought to be crude and unsophisticated, Hardy is now cited by theorists to develop or prove theories on fiction development.
Download or read book A Study of Thomas Hardy written by Arthur Symons and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noted literary critic presents a brief but trenchant analysis of the author's use of characterization in his novels. Originally published in a limited edition of 350 copies.
Download or read book Lines of Resistance written by Adrian Grafe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resistance is a key concept for understanding the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and for approaching the poetry of the period. This collection of 15 critical essays explores how poetry and resistance interact, set against a philosophical, historical and cultural background. In the light of the upheavals of the age, and the changing perception of the nature of language, resistance is seen to lie at the core of poetic preoccupations, moving poetic language forward. From this perspective, the resistance of poetry is connected with the human call to solidarity, resilience, and, ultimately, meaning. The volume covers poetry from Hardy, Yeats and Auden, among others, to contemporary writers like Hugo Williams and Linton Kwesi Johnson.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy selected Poems written by Thomas Hardy and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems Tim Armstrong has brought together a collection of over 180 poems to form the first comprehensively-annotated selection of Hardy's poetry. Unlike most previous selections, this edition preserves the shape of the poet's career by presenting the poems in the order in which they appeared in the Collected Poems of 1930, rather than re-ordering them thematically. Headnotes to each poem give the reader information about its composition, publication, sources, and metrical scheme; on-the-page notes list significant variants in Hardy's manuscripts, point out literary and other allusions, and give full explanatory glosses. An appendix contains a selection of relevant passages from Hardy's notebooks, letters, and autobiography. Tim Armstrong's critical introduction discusses Hardy's career, his poetics, his use of memory and allusion and examines his position in the context of Victorian debates on aesthetics and belief. The generous selection of poems includes many lesser-known poems as well as those which have received most critical commentary, and the important elegiac sequence 'Poems of 1912-13' is included in its entirety. Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems will prove essential reading for undergraduate and sixth-form students of English literature and all those interested in early modern poetry.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Barbara Hardy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers close readings of Thomas Hardy's poetry and novels, regarding these as expressive forms of everyday and professional acts of the imagination. Hardy is placed in the long tradition of writers who subject is not art but imagination and whose most interesting aesthetic introspectionÆs, like those of Jane Austen and George Eliot, are oblique or sub-textual. So what the reader follows here is Hardy's imagining of imagination in his elegies and nature poems and in his major characters from Gabriel Oak to Tess and Jude.The themes and forms examined by Barbara Hardy include narrative, conversation, gossip, memory, gender, poetry of place and imaginative thresholds. Altogether the study is a lucid and accessible introduction, which locates Hardy's place in the tradition of English literature.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides reviews of six prominent works by the poet Thomas Hardy along with criticism and thematic analysis of other works and a short biography of the poet.
Download or read book The Complete Poetry of Thomas Hardy written by Thomas Hardy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 1409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grand collection includes the complete poetry of the great Victorian author Thomas Hardy, containing over 940 poems, verses and lyrics: Wessex Poems and Other Verses The Temporary the All Amabel Hap "In Vision I Roamed" At a Bridal Postponement A Confession to a Friend in Trouble Neutral Tones She Her Initials Her Dilemma Revulsion She, To Him Ditty The Sergeant's Song Valenciennes San Sebastian The Stranger's Song The Burghers Leipzig The Peasant's Confession The Alarm Her Death and After The Dance at the Phœnix The Casterbridge Captains A Sign-Seeker My Cicely Her Immortality The Ivy-Wife A Meeting with Despair Unknowing Friends Beyond To Outer Nature Thoughts of Phena Middle-Age Enthusiasms In a Wood To a Lady To an Orphan Child Nature's Questioning The Impercipient At an Inn The Slow Nature In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's Heiress and Architect The Two Men Lines "I Look into my Glass" Poems of the Past and the Present Embarcation Departure The Colonel's Soliloquy The Going of the Battery At the War Office A Christmas Ghost-Story The Dead Drummer A Wife in London The Souls of the Slain Song of the Soldiers' Wives The Sick God Genoa and the Mediterranean Shelley's Skylark In the Old Theatre, Fiesole Rome: on the Palatine Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden Zermatt: To the Matterhorn The Bridge of Lodi On an Invitation to the United States... Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses The Revisitation A Trampwoman's Tragedy The Two Rosalinds A Sunday Morning Tragedy The House of Hospitalities Bereft John and Jane The Curate's Kindness The Flirt's Tragedy The Rejected Member's Wife The Farm-Woman's Winter Autumn in King's Hintock Park Shut out that Moon Reminiscences of a Dancing Man The Dead Man Walking Satires of Circumstance... Moments of Vision Late Lyrics and Earlier ... Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist, he was influenced in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy written by Dale Kramer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy's fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most influential of the twentieth century. His work still creates passionate advocacy and opposition. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy is an essential introduction to this most enigmatic of writers. These commissioned essays from an international team of contributors comprises a general overview of all Hardy' s work and specific demonstrations of Hardy's ideas and literary skills. Individual essays explore Hardy's biography, aesthetics, his famous attachment to Wessex, and the impact on his work of developments in science, religion and philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Hardy's writing is also analysed against developments in contemporary critical theory and issues such as sexuality and gender. The volume also contains a detailed chronology of Hardy's life and publications, and a guide to further reading.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Thomas Hardy and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Hardy's poetry and non-fiction prose, containing some 200 of his familiar and less-familiar shorter poems organized by theme, as well as Hardy's own prefaces to volumes of his poems, and his essays on fiction, on the "Dorsetshire laborer," and on an 18th- century execution. Includes explanatory notes, and a brief overview of Hardy's life and work. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Peter Widdowson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11-04 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Widdowson's major new selection of Hardy's poetry offers the student a challenging assessment of his poetic achievement by juxtaposing Hardy's best known poems with some of his least known. In addition to the 184 poems and the selection of Hardy's prose writings (never before so fully annotated), Widdowson includes a lively introduction on Hardy's life and work, a critical essay re-assessing his place in literary history, and extensive explanatory notes on each poem and essay. The volume revitalises our understanding and enjoyment of a most enduringly popular poet and is set to prove a definitive student edition.
Download or read book Study of Thomas Hardy written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated novelist and poet presents his philosophy of literature and art through an in-depth analysis of Thomas Hardy in this restored edition. Though D. H. Lawrence was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, his works were severely corrupted by the stringent house-styling of printers and the intrusive editing of timid publishers. A team of scholars at Cambridge University Press has worked for more than thirty years to restore the definitive texts of D. H. Lawrence in The Cambridge Editions. Originally intended to be a short critical work on fellow English novelist Thomas Hardy’s characters, D. H. Lawrence’s Study of Thomas Hardydeveloped into a sweeping articulation of his views on literature and art. Though Lawrence destroyed the original manuscript, the work was published posthumously. This restored and authoritative edition also includes essays spanning the whole of Lawrence’s writing career, with an introduction contextualizing them within Lawrence’s life and work.
Download or read book With the Grain written by Donald Davie and published by Lives and Letters. This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1973 as Thomas Hardy and British Poetry, this book then represented a challenge to critical orthodoxy. It modified the image of Hardy the nostalgic countryman with that of Hardy the Victorian engineer of language. It also suggested that, far from being a minor poet, Hardy had been a major influence on British poetry in the period since high Modernism. Exploring the wide range of poets who may have learnt from Hardy, Davie associates its influence with a curtailing of ambitions which he states has afflicted modern poetry in Britain. This poetic loss of nerve leads Davie to the political malaise of England, its tensions and illusions. This edition contains Davie's study of Hardy, together with his later essays, and also works on modern British poetry and the condition of modern Britain.
