James Gibson

Thomas Hardy

Interviews and Recollections
Herausgegeben:Gibson, James

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume is a selection of recollections on Thomas Hardy by his friends and fellow writers including Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon. It should be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about Hardy's life, thoughts and writings.

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Hardy was an unknown architect in 1870, a famous novelist by 1895, and acknowledged as a great novelist, poet and epic-dramatist when he died in 1928. With fame came a never-ending stream of friends and writers anxious to record their impressions of the Grand Old Man of English Literature. Among them were Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon, Gustav Holst, T.E. Lawrence, H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves, and very many more. Interviews and Recollections is a selection of the most interesting and important of the many hundreds of recollections which have been gathered together by the Editor over many years. It will be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about Hardy's life, thoughts and writings.

Produktdetails

• Interviews and Recollections
• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-24788-4
• 1999
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780333247884
• ISBN-10: 0333247884
• Artikelnr.: 42304306

Autorenporträt

JAMES GIBSON is semi-retired but still lecturing, writing and chairing The Hardy Society. He was Head of the Department of English at Dulwich College (1949-1962) and Christ Church College, Canterbury (1962-1982). He is Honorary Vice President and Chairman of the Hardy Society and Honorary Vice President of the Betjeman Society. He was presented by fellow Hardy scholars with festschrift 1994. He is the editor of The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy, and the Variorum edition of that work, and of all Hardy's major novels. His acclaimed Literary Life of Hardy was published by Macmillan in 1996.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction The First Thirty Years: 1840-1870 The Nine Years: 1871-1879 The Ten Years: 1880-1889 The Ten Years: 1890-1899 The Final Years: 1900-1928

Rezensionen

'Gibson is the magister ludi of Hardy studies...Gibson brings to Hardy's life the weight of his own history, expertise and variegated Hardy knowledge. The book is continually alive with interest, matured judgement and sheer delight in a novelist and poet whom Gibson dearly loves.' - Dennis Taylor, The Thomas Hardy Journal

'What makes the reading of Gibson's book even more arresting is the author's sure grasp of the artist's multi-layered universe. He is the authoritative guide confidently leading the reader along the many literary and biographical pathways that converge and separate along the vast panorama of a life fully lived.' - Francesco Marroni, Rivista di Studi Vittoriani

'...this, of all the biographries, is the one to recommend to students, this being our Literary Life.' - Professor Michael Irwin, Oxford Reader's Companion to Thomas Hardy