Thomas Hardy Selected Poems : Longman Annotated Texts

by Armstrong, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780582040618
• ISBN10: 0582040612
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Tim Armstrong has brought together a collection of over 180 poems. Preserving the shape of the poet's career, he presents the poems in the order in which they appeared in the Collected Poems of 1930. He also 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. He includes many lesser known poems as well as those which have received most critical commentary is included.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction	p. 1
Hardy's 'second' career	p. 1
Turning to poetry	p. 1
Poetry as posthumous vision	p. 4
Necessity and free will	p. 7
Typology and the pattern of a life	p. 10
Sequences and patterns	p. 14
God and history	p. 16
Hardy and the dead	p. 19
The 'Poems of 1912-13'	p. 22
Restoration and the past	p. 26
Wessex	p. 28
Hardy's style	p. 30
The Gothic art-principle	p. 31
Words	p. 32
Prosody	p. 35
Hardy and literary tradition	p. 40
Selecting Hardy	p. 42
A note on the annotations	p. 44
A Note on the Text	p. 45
The Poems	p. 47
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)	p. 49
The Temporary the All	p. 50
Hap	p. 52
Neutral Tones	p. 53
The Peasant's Confession	p. 55
A Sign-Seeker	p. 60
Friends Beyond	p. 63
Thoughts of Phena	p. 65
Nature's Questioning	p. 67
In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury	p. 69
'I look into my glass'	p. 70
From Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)	p. 72
V.R. 1819-1901	p. 73
Drummer Hodge	p. 74
The Souls of the Slain	p. 76
Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter	p. 80
Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats	p. 81
A Commonplace Day	p. 82
To an Unborn Pauper Child	p. 84
Her Reproach	p. 86
His Immortality	p. 87
Winter in Durnover Field	p. 88
The Darkling Thrush	p. 88
The Respectable Burgher on 'The Higher Criticism'	p. 91
The Self-Unseeing	p. 93
In Tenebris I	p. 94
In Tenebris II	p. 96
In Tenebris III	p. 98
Tess's Lament	p. 100
Sapphic Fragment	p. 102
[actual symbol not reproducible]	p. 103
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses (1909)	p. 105
The Revisitation	p. 106
A Trampwoman's Tragedy	p. 112
In the Mind's Eye	p. 117
He Abjures Love	p. 117
Let Me Enjoy	p. 119
Julie-Jane	p. 120
The Dead Quire	p. 121
Night in the Old Home	p. 126
After the Last Breath	p. 127
One We Knew	p. 128
George Meredith, 1828-1909	p. 130
Yell'ham Wood's Story	p. 131
A Young Man's Epigram on Existence	p. 132
From Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries (1914)	p. 133
In Front of the Landscape	p. 134
Channel Firing	p. 137
The Convergence of the Twain	p. 138
'When I set out for Lyonnesse'	p. 141
Wessex Heights	p. 143
A Singer Asleep	p. 145
Self-Unconscious	p. 148
Under the Waterfall	p. 150
'Poems of 1912-13'	p. 151
The Going	p. 153
Your Last Drive	p. 155
The Walk	p. 156
Rain on a Grave	p. 157
'I found her out there'	p. 158
Without Ceremony	p. 160
Lament	p. 161
The Haunter	p. 163
The Voice	p. 164
His Visitor	p. 166
A Circular	p. 167
A Dream or No	p. 167
After a Journey	p. 169
A Death-Day Recalled	p. 171
Beeny Cliff	p. 172
At Castle Boterel	p. 173
Places	p. 175
The Phantom Horsewoman	p. 177
The Spell of the Rose	p. 178
St Launce's Revisited	p. 180
Where the Picnic Was	p. 181
The Obliterate Tomb	p. 183
The Workbox	p. 187
Exeunt Omnes	p. 188
A Poet	p. 190
In the Cemetery	p. 191
From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917)	p. 192
Moments of Vision	p. 193
The Voice of Things	p. 194
Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune	p. 195
At the Word 'Farewell'	p. 196
Heredity	p. 197
Near Lanivet, 1872	p. 198
Copying Architecture in an Old Minster	p. 199
To Shakespeare	p. 201
Quid Hic Agis?	p. 203
On a Midsummer Eve	p. 206
The Blinded Bird	p. 206
The Statue of Liberty	p. 207
The Change	p. 209
Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E-Flat Symphony	p. 211
The Pedigree	p. 212
His Heart: A Woman's Dream	p. 215
The Oxen	p. 216
The Photograph	p. 217
The Last Signal	p. 218
The Figure in the Scene	p. 219
Overlooking the River Stour	p. 220
The Musical Box	p. 222
Old Furniture	p. 223
The Five Students	p. 225
The Wind's Prophecy	p. 226
During Wind and Rain	p. 228
A Backward Spring	p. 230
He Revisits His First School	p. 231
'I thought, my Heart'	p. 232
The Shadow on the Stone	p. 233
'For Life I had never cared greatly'	p. 234
The Pity of It	p. 236
In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'	p. 237
A New Year's Eve in War Time	p. 239
'I looked up from my writing'	p. 241
Afterwards	p. 242
From Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922)	p. 244
Weathers	p. 253
'According to the Mighty Working'	p. 254
The Contretemps	p. 255
'And There Was a Great Calm'	p. 257
The Selfsame Song	p. 259
At Lulworth Cove a Century Back	p. 260
The Collector Cleans His Picture	p. 261
On the Tune Called the Old-Hundred-and-Fourth	p. 263
Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard	p. 264
After a Romantic Day	p. 266
In the Small Hours	p. 267
Last Words to a Dumb Friend	p. 268
A Drizzling Easter Morning	p. 269
'I was the midmost'	p. 270
The Inscription	p. 271
The Whitewashed Wall	p. 274
After Reading Psalms XXXIX, XL, etc.	p. 276
Surview	p. 277
From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)	p. 279
Waiting Both	p. 280
A Bird-Scene at a Rural Dwelling	p. 280
In a Former Resort after Many Years	p. 281
A Cathedral Facade at Midnight	p. 282
The Monument-Maker	p. 283
The Later Autumn	p. 284
An East-End Curate	p. 285
Sine Prole	p. 286
A Sheep Fair	p. 287
Snow in the Suburbs	p. 289
A Light Snow-Fall after Frost	p. 290
Music in a Snowy Street	p. 291
In Sherborne Abbey	p. 292
The Mock Wife	p. 294
'Not only I'	p. 296
Her Haunting-Ground	p. 297
Days to Recollect	p. 298
This Summer and Last	p. 299
'Nothing matters much'	p. 300
Before My Friend Arrived	p. 301
The Bird-Catcher's Boy	p. 301
Song to an Old Burden	p. 304
'Why do I?'	p. 305
From Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)	p. 307
The New Dawn's Business	p. 309
Proud Songsters	p. 310
The Prophetess	p. 311
A Wish for Unconsciousness	p. 312
The Love-Letters	p. 312
Throwing a Tree	p. 313
Lying Awake	p. 314
Childhood Among the Ferns	p. 315
A Poet's Thought	p. 316
'I watched a blackbird'	p. 317
A Nightmare, and the Next Thing	p. 318
So Various	p. 319
An Evening in Galilee	p. 321
We Field-women	p. 323
He Never Expected Much	p. 324
Standing by the Mantelpiece	p. 325
Our Old Friend Dualism	p. 326
Drinking Song	p. 327
The Aged Newspaper Soliloquizes	p. 331
Christmas: 1924	p. 331
The Boy's Dream	p. 332
Family Portraits	p. 333
Christmas in the Elgin Room	p. 335
'We are getting to the end'	p. 337
He Resolves to Say No More	p. 338
From Hardy's Uncollected Poems	p. 340
Thoughts from Sophocles	p. 340
The Eve of Waterloo	p. 342
Prologue	p. 344
Epilogue	p. 345
On One Who Thought No Other Could Write Such English as Himself	p. 346
Selections from Hardy's Autobiography	p. 347
Appendix I: Two Early Versions of Poems by Hardy	p. 361
Appendix II: Page References in Hardy's Autobiography	p. 365
Bibliography	p. 367
Index of titles	p. 376
Index of first lines	p. 381
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