Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 594 g
Reihe: Longman Annotated Texts
Selected Poems
Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 594 g
Reihe: Longman Annotated Texts
ISBN: 978-1-4082-0430-6
Verlag: Routledge
In Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems Tim Armstrong brings together over 180 poems in the first comprehensively annotated selection of Hardys poetry. Unlike most previous selections, this edition preserves the shape of the poets career by presenting the poems in the order in which they appeared in the Collected Poems of 1930, rather than re-ordering them thematically.
Head notes to each poem give the reader information about its composition, publication, sources and metrical scheme; on-the-page notes list significant variants in Hardys manuscripts, point out literary and other allusions, and give explanatory glosses. An appendix contains a selection of relevant passages from Hardys notebooks, letters, and autobiography; and a bibliography suggests further reading.
Tim Armstrongs critical Introduction discusses Hardys 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.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction
Hardys second career
Turning to poetry
Poetry as posthumous vision
Necessity and free will
Typology and the pattern of a life
Sequences and patterns
God and history
Hardy and the dead
The Poems of 1912-13
Restoration and the past
Wessex
Hardys style
The Gothic art-principle
Words
Prosody
Hardy and literary tradition
Selecting Hardy
A note on the annotations
A note on the text
The Poems
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)
- The temporary the All
- Hap
- Neutral Tones
- The Peasants Confession
- A Sign-Seeker
- Friends Beyond
- Thoughts of Phena
- Natures Questioning
- In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury
- I look into my glass
From Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
- V.R. 1819-1901
- Drummer Hodge
- The Souls of Slain
- Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter
- Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats
- A Commonplace Day
- To an Unborn Pauper Child
- Her Reproach
- His Immortality
- Winter in Durnover Field
- The Darkling Thrush
- The Respectable Burgher on The Higher Criticism
- The Self-Unseeing
- In Tenebris I
- In Tenebris II
- In Tenebris III
- Tesss Lament
- Sapphic Fragment
- AG?OS?O??O
From Times Laughingstocks and Other Verses (1909)
- The Revisitation
- A Trampwomans Tragedy
- In the Minds Eye
- He Abjures Love
- Let Me Enjoy
- Julie-Jane
- The Dead Quire
- Night in the Old Home
- After the Last Breath
- One We Knew
- George Meredith, 1828-1909
- Yellham Woods Story
- A Young Mans Epigram on Existence
From Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries (1914)
- In Front of Landscape
- Channel Firing
- The Convergence of Twain
- When I set out for Lyonnesse
- Wessex Heights
- A Singer Asleep
- Self-Unconscious
- Under the Waterfall
Poems of 1912-13
- The Going
- Your Last Drive
- The Walk
- Rain on a Grave
- I found her out there
- Without Ceremony
- Lament
- The Haunt
- The Voice
- His Visitor
- A Circular
- A Dream or No
- After a Journey
- A Death-Day Recalled
- Beeny Cliff
- At Castle Boterel
- Places
- The Phantom Horsewoman
- The Spell of Rose
- St Launces Revisited
- Where the Picnic Was
- The Obliterate Tomb
- The Workbox
- Exeunt Omnes
- A Poet
- In the Cemetery
From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917)
- Moments of Vision
- The Voice of Things
- Apostrophes to an Old Psalm Tune
- At the Word Farewell
- Heredity
- Near Laniet, 1872
- Copying Architecture in an Old Minster
- To Shakespeare
- Quid Hic Agis?
- On a Midsummer Eve
- The Blinded Bird
- The Statue of Liberty
- The Change
- Lines to a Movement in Mozarts E-Flat Symphony
- The Pedigree
- His Heart: A Womans Dream
- The Oxen
- The Photograph
- The Last Signal
- The Figure in the Scene
- Overlooking the River Stour
- The Musical Box
- Old Furniture
- The Five Students
- The Winds Prophecy
- During Wind and Rain
- A Backward Spring
- He Revisits His First School
- I thought, my heart
- The Shadow on the Stone
- For Life I had never cared greatly
- The Pity of It
- In Time of The Breaking of Nations
- A New Years Eve in War Time
- I looked up from my writing
- Afterwards
From Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922)
- Weathers
- According to the Might Working
- The Contretemps
- And There Was a Great Calm
- The Selfsame Song
- At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
- The Collector Cleans His Picture
- On the Tune Called the Old-Hundred-and-fourth
- Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard
- After a Romantic Day
- In the Small Hours
- Last Words to a Dumb Friend
- A Drizzling Easter Morning
- I was the midmost
- The Inscription
- The Whitewashed Wall
- After Reading Psalms XXXIX, XL, etc.
- Surview
From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)
- Waiting Both
- A Bird-Scene at a Rural Dwelling
- In a Former Resort after Many Years
- A Cathedral Façade at Midnight
- The Monument-Maker
- The Later Autumn
- An East-End Curate
- Sine Prole
- A Sheep Fair
- Snow in the Suburbs
- A Light Snow-Fall after Frost
- Music in a Snowy Street
- In Sherborne Abbey
- The Mock Wife
- Not only I
- Her Haunting-Ground
- Days to Recollect
- This Summer and Last
- Nothing matters much
- Before My Friend Arrived
- The Bird-Cathers Boy
- Song to an Old Burden
- Why do I?
From Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)
- The New Dawns Business
- Proud Songsters
- The Prophetess
- A Wish for Unconsciousness
- The Love-Letters
- Throwing a Tree
- Lying Awake
- Childhood Among the Ferns
- A Poets Though
- I watched a blackbird
- A Nightmare, and the Next Thing
- So Various
- An Evening in Galilee
- We field-women
- He Never Expected Much
- Standing by the Mantelpiece
- Our Old Friend Dualism
- Drinking Song
- The Aged Newspaper Soliloquizes
- Christmas: 1924
- The Boys Dream
- Family Portrait
- Christmas in the Elgin Room
- We are getting to the end
- He Resolves to Say No More
From Hardys Uncollected Poems
- Thoughts from Sophocles
- The Eve of Waterloo
- Prologue
- Epilogue
- On One Who Thought No Other Could Write Such English as Himself
Selections from Hardys Autobiography
Appendix I: Two Early Versions of Poems by Hardy
Appendix II
