Thomas Hardy: Selected Writings

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students a comprehensive selection of the work of...
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Author: Ralph Pite
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Thomas Hardy: Selected Writings

$89.65

Thomas Hardy: Selected Writings

$89.65
Author: Ralph Pite
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students a comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas Hardy--the first for nearly thirty years. The edition presents the poetry in a new way by using the text of Hardy's individual volumes, as they appeared originally, instead of the revised text he later produced for his Collected Poems. This edition reveals the range and variety of his output--qualities he later tended to disguise. His most famous sequence, Poems of 1912-13, appears in a radically different form.

Selections from his epic drama, The Dynasts, are given within the chronological sequence of his poetry, illustrating the power of this neglected work. Notebook and journal entries where Hardy puts forward his understanding of poetry and the role of the poet are also included.

Uniquely generous in the number of poems it contains, this edition also provides extensive annotation, locating Hardy's work in its cultural context and reading it in the light of the critical reception. The notes direct attention towards Hardy's regional heritage, and they show his response to the issues and debates of his day--to discussions surrounding war, patriotism, the treatment of animals, marriage, and religion, among others. The annotation identifies, in addition, how Hardy's work has continued to speak to present-day readers, by addressing present-day concerns--in particular, gender, including the gender(s) of the poetic voice, the global and (or versus) the local, and humanity's place within the natural world.

The edition also includes an Introduction to the life and works of Hardy and a Chronology.

Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/15/2024
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780198904861

About the Author
Ralph Pite, University of Bristol

Ralph Pite is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has published extensively on Thomas Hardy, including the biography, Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life (2007) and Hardy's Geography: Wessex and the Regional Novel (2002). He has also published on classical reception and on ecocriticism, particularly in connection with the Romantic period; he is currently completing a study of Edward Thomas's prose. He developed the smartphone app, Romantic Bristol: Writing the City, first launched in 2013, and is a published poet.

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