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List of abbreviations |
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Chronology |
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Introduction |
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Poetry as posthumous vision |
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Typology and the pattern of a life |
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Hardy and literary tradition |
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A note on the annotations |
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A note on the text |
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The Poems |
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From Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898) |
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4 The Peasant's Confession |
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9 In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury |
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10 'I look into my glass' |
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13 The Souls of the Slain |
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14 Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter |
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15 Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats |
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17 To an Unborn Pauper Child |
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20 Winter in Durnover Field |
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22 The Respectable Burgher on 'The Higher Criticism' |
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31 A Trampwoman's Tragedy |
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40 George Meredith, 1828-1909 |
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42 A Young Man's Epigram on Existence |
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43 In Front of the Landscape |
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45 The Convergence of the Twain |
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46 'When I set out for Lyonnesse' |
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55 'I found her out there' |
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68 The Phantom Horsewoman |
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From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917) |
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79 Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune |
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80 At the Word 'Farewell' |
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83 Copying Architecture in an Old Minster |
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90 Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E-Flat Symphony |
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92 His Heart: A Woman's Dream |
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96 The Figure in the Scene |
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97 Overlooking the River Stour |
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104 He Revisits His First School |
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105 'I thought, my Heart' |
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106 The Shadow on the Stone |
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107 'For Life I had never cared greatly' |
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109 In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' |
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110 A New Year's Eve in War Time |
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111 'I looked up from my writing' |
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114 'According to the Mighty Working' |
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116 'And There Was a Great Calm' |
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118 At Lulworth Cove a Century Back |
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119 The Collector Cleans His Picture |
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120 On the Tune Called the Old-Hundred-and-Fourth |
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121 Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard |
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124 Last Words to a Dumb Friend |
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125 A Drizzling Easter Morning |
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129 After Reading Psalms XXXIX, XL, etc. |
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From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925) |
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132 A Bird-Scene at a Rural Dwelling |
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133 In a Former Resort after Many Years |
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134 A Cathedral Facade at Midnight |
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141 A light Snow-Fall after Frost |
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142 Music in a Snowy Street |
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149 'Nothing matters much' |
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150 Before My Friend Arrived |
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151 The Bird-Catcher's Boy |
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152 Song to an Old Burden |
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From Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928) |
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154 The New Dawn's Business |
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157 A Wish for Unconsciousness |
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161 Childhood Among the Ferns |
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163 'I watched a blackbird' |
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164 A Nightmare, and the Next Thing |
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166 An Evening in Galilee |
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168 He Never Expected Much |
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169 Standing by the Mantelpiece |
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170 Our Old Friend Dualism |
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172 The Aged Newspaper Soliloquizes |
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176 Christmas in the Elgin Room |
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177 'We are getting to the end' |
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178 He Resolves to Say No More |
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From Hardy's Uncollected Poems |
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179 Thoughts from Sophocles |
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183 On One Who Thought No Other Could Write Such English as Himself |
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Selections from Hardy's Autobiography |
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Appendix I: Two Early Versions of Poems by Hardy |
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Appendix II: Page References in Hardy's Autobiography |
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Bibliography |
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Index of titles |
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Index of first lines |
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