Thomas Hardy

Under the Greenwood Tree

Herausgeber: Gatrell, Simon

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Produktbeschreibung

"Thomas Hardy's career as an author bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and during that time he could count among his accomplishments fourteen novels, more than nine hundred poems, a little over four dozen pieces of short fiction, and a verse drama in three volumes that took as its topic the Peninsular War and the fall of Napoleon. Yet on the brink of his first great success, the publication of Far from the Madding Crowd in the prestigious Cornhill Magazine, he wrote to its editor Leslie Stephen that, although he might 'have higher aims some day', at that moment he wished 'merely to be considered a good hand at a serial'. It is safe to say that those higher aims were achieved, for after Hardy's Westminster Abbey funeral, and after large crowds had silently filed past his open grave in Poet's Corner, The Times in its obituary for him mourned the loss of English literature's 'most eminent figure'. Hardy's stature as a writer was, and remains, unassailable, and the continuing popularity of his fiction, in both print and other media, attests to his powerful and enduring representation of human experience"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 554
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 945g
• ISBN-13: 9781107089020
• ISBN-10: 1107089026
• Artikelnr.: 49215160

Autorenporträt

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Hardy's Wessex eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. He destroyed the manuscript of his first, unplaced novel, but -- encouraged by mentor and friend George Meredith -- tried again. His important work took place in an area of southern England he called Wessex, named after the English kingdom that existed before the Norman Conquest.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
General editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Abbreviations
Introduction
Under the Greenwood Tree
Variants in punctuation and styling
End-of-line hyphenation
Editorial emendations
Appendix A. Hardy's preface to the Wessex Edition
Appendix B. Under the Greenwood Tree and The Poor Man and the Lady
Appendix C. Detailed analysis of the manuscript
Appendix D. Chapter-division in the manuscript
Appendix E. Watermarks in the manuscript
Appendix F. The compositors of the first edition
Appendix G. Robson's compositors in A Pair of Blue Eyes
Appendix H. Differences between the first and second editions
Appendix I. Printing orders for Under the Greenwood Tree Published by Chatto and Windus and Macmillan
Appendix J. Frontispieces
Appendix K. Description of substantive editions
Explanatory notes.