Thomas HardyWordsworth Editions, 2007 - 613 pagina's Originally published as a biography of Thomas Hardy by Florence, his widow, this 'Life' is now known to have been essentially the work of Hardy himself. There has been much critical discussion of its hybrid status, and of Hardy's motives for contriving what some have seen as a deception.This controversy has tended to obscure a much more important issue - the oddity, attractiveness and diversity of the work in question. It does give an account of Hardy's life, from the very moment of birth when he was 'thrown aside as dead' till rescued by the midwife. But more than that it offers a wonderful miscellany of reminiscences, anecdotes, folk-tales, personal insights, diary entries and intriguing reflections on art in general and fiction and poetry in particular. It reveals a good deal about Hardy the man, and still more about Hardy the writer. No lover of his novels or poems should be without it. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 84
Pagina v
... London Suburb 10 London , Normandy , and Cambridge PART THREE Illness , Novels , and Italy II A Difficult Period ; and a Change 12 Wimborne and Two on a Tower 13 The County Town II2 122 133 147 155 165 14 Max Gate and The Woodlanders 15 ...
... London Suburb 10 London , Normandy , and Cambridge PART THREE Illness , Novels , and Italy II A Difficult Period ; and a Change 12 Wimborne and Two on a Tower 13 The County Town II2 122 133 147 155 165 14 Max Gate and The Woodlanders 15 ...
Pagina xx
De content van deze pagina is beperkt.
De content van deze pagina is beperkt.
Pagina xxv
De content van deze pagina is beperkt.
De content van deze pagina is beperkt.
Pagina xxvi
De content van deze pagina is beperkt.
De content van deze pagina is beperkt.
Pagina xxviii
De content van deze pagina is beperkt.
De content van deze pagina is beperkt.
Inhoudsopgave
Student and Architect | 28 |
Work in London | 36 |
Between Architecture and Literature | 57 |
St Juliot | 68 |
First Three Books | 85 |
Far from the Madding Crowd Marriage and Another Novel | 97 |
Holland the Rhine and Sturminster Newton | 112 |
Life and Literature in a London Suburb | 122 |
Another Novel Finished Mutilated and Restored | 270 |
More on Jude and Issue of The WellBeloved | 284 |
PART SIX Verse to the End of The Dynasts | 297 |
Collecting Old Poems and Making New | 299 |
Wessex Poems and Others | 308 |
Poems of the Past and the Present and Others | 317 |
Part First of The Dynasts | 328 |
The Remainder of The Dynasts | 339 |
London Normandy and Cambridge | 133 |
A Difficult Period and a Change | 147 |
Wimborne and Two on a Tower | 155 |
The County Town | 165 |
Max Gate and The Woodlanders | 180 |
Italian Journey | 192 |
PART FOUR Between Town and Country | 203 |
London Friends Paris and Short Stories | 205 |
More Town Friends and a Novels Dismemberment | 219 |
Observations on People and Things | 230 |
The Novel Tess Restored and Published | 239 |
PART FIVE Tess Jude and the End of Prose | 249 |
The Reception of the Book | 251 |
Visits and Intermittent Writing | 260 |
PART SEVEN Times Laughingstocks Satires of Circumstance and Moments of Vision | 349 |
Deaths of Swinburne and Meredith | 351 |
The Freedom of the Borough | 359 |
Bereavement | 365 |
Revisitings Second Marriage and War Writings | 371 |
War Efforts Deaths of Relatives and Moments of Vision | 379 |
Reflections on Poetry | 393 |
The Dynasts at Oxford Honorary Degree A Deputation | 407 |
Some Farewells | 422 |
The Last Scene | 442 |
APPENDIX I | 461 |
APPENDIX 3 | 467 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
afterwards appeared architecture arrived asked August beginning called carried church coming critics death December Dorchester Dorset Dynasts early English experience expressed eyes face fact father feel give hand Hardy Hardy's heard human idea interest July June kind knew known Lady late later leaving letter living London looking Lord manuscript March Max Gate means meeting mind Miss month morning nature never night novel once passed performance person play poem poet poetry present probably published reason received remarks remember scene seems seen sent standing stay story Street talked things Thomas Hardy thought told took town turned verse volume walked week wife wish woman writing written wrote young