This edition includes a 44 page critical introduction which aims at a reassessment of Hardy's poetry, and re-examines the themes that preoccupied him as he grew to maturity as a poet, from his abandonment of the novel form, his examination of religion and free will, to the rather odd, elegiac collection he wrote in the aftermath of his wife's death. The collection is additionally supported by extensive annotations, metrical notes, notes on further reading, bibliography and other material. It arranges poems as they were ordered in Hardy's individual volumes, and prints the ‘Poems of 1912-13' in their entirety.

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction
Hardy’s ‘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
Hardy’s 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 Peasant’s Confession
A Sign-Seeker Friends Beyond Thoughts of Phena Nature’s
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
Tess’s Lament Sapphic Fragment
’A¿¿¿¿¿¿ӨЕ¿ FromTime’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses(1909)
The Revisitation A Trampwoman’s Tragedy In the Mind’s 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
Yell’ham Wood’s Story
A Young Man’s 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 Launce’s 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 ‘Fa
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