Volume 25, Number 10 · June 15, 1978
Hardy Hardy
By Stephen Spender
Thomas Hardy After Fifty Years
edited by Lance St John Butler
Rowman and Littlefield, 192 pp., $13.75
Thomas Hardy's Later Years
by Robert Gittings
Atlantic/Little Brown, 244 pp., $12.50
Young Thomas Hardy
by Robert Gittings
Atlantic/Little Brown, 259 pp., $10.95
An Essay on Hardy
by John Bayley
Cambridge University Press, 237 pp., $14.95
The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy: Volume I, 1840-1892
edited by Richard Little Purdy, edited by Michael Millgate
Oxford University Press, 293 pp., $28.75
Thomas Hardy and the British Tradition
by Donald Davie
Oxford University Press, 202 pp., $8.95
The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy
edited by James Gibson
Macmillan, 1,002 pp., $20.95
When I was a boy, all modernists were considered lunatics within the professional middle-class circle of my family. Yet the complete Wessex edition of Thomas Hardy's novels and poems was on our bookshelves, and we read them. Tess of the d'Urbervilles was considered dangerous but dealing with A Serious Subject, and Jude the Obscure morbid, but not, like the works of the modernists, wild and immoral. I knew that Hardy had always wished to write poetry more than to write novels.
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