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Thomas Hardy's "Studies, Specimens &c." notebook, dating from the mid-1860s, preserves unique evidence of the studies of other writers and the self-assigned exercises in vocabulary-building and poetic techniques by which he so deliberately sought to make himself into a poet at the very beginning of his literary career. This edition presents the manuscript in quasi-facsimile, with full annotation of Hardy's sources, allusions, and intentions, as far as they can be interpreted.
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About the Author
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of England's greatest novelists. Most of his work is set in his native Dorset, on the south coast of England. Pamela Dalziel is at University of British Columbia. Michael Millgate is at University of Toronto.
Review
"A carefully prepared edition of a rare Hardy notebook....Of great value to Hardy scholars."--Nineteenth-Century Literature
"A suberb scholarly edition of this very important record of Hardy's early literary efforts has been prepared by Pamela Dalziel and Michael Millgate....An invaluable guide through this thicket of Hardy's uses of quotation and personal amplification by identifying the source of each discoverable quotation-even the actual copy of the book Hardy used-and carefully discriminating Hardy's quotations from his own comments and experimental variations....This fine exemplar of meticulous editing makes it an appropriate memorial to a scholar whose work exhibited that combination of wide-ranging scholarship and scrupulous care for detail they have lavished on it."--English Literature in Transition
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- PublisherClarendon Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0198117574
- ISBN 13 9780198117575
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
- EditorDalziel Pamela, Millgate Michael
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Thomas Hardy's Studies, Specimens &c. notebook stands almost alone as a witness to his exertions and aspirations of the 1860s, when he was already in his middle twenties but still working in London as an architectual assistant and only tentatively feeling his way towards as yet dimly glimpsed possibilities of literary expression and employment. Because so little documentation of any kind has survived for this early period of his life and work, thenotebook is of extraordinary interest as containing detailed evidence of the untutored deliberateness with which Hardy was seeking to provide himself with a poetic background, educate himself in poetic techniques, andinitiate a process from which he could perhaps emerge as a practising, even a publishing, poet. In private hands until very recently, and seen by only a very few scholars, Studies, Specimens &c.' dates from 1865-68, is entirely in Hardy's own hand, and consists of eighty-eight closely written pages of working memoranda, and quotations from other poets - mostly extracts a few words long in which underlining has been used to highlight individual images and word-usages. Althoughno drafts of actual poems are present, there are numerous instances of Hardy's seeking to generate a poetic, and sometimes erotic, language and imagery out of materials (e.g., an architectual textbook) apparentlychosen precisley for their recalcitrance to such treatment. The edition itself seeks to reproduce typographically all essential features of the original document. The introductory material describes the notebook bibliographically, sets it in its biographical context, and discusses some of its more important technical features. Included in the extensive apparatus are textual notes, explications of Hardy's occasional quotations - indicating, in most instances, theeditions or actual volumes he certainly or probably used. Explanatory notes are provided for - among other things - some erased but now partly recoved memoranda of Hardy's that appear to have significantbiographical implications. A new edition of the manuscript in quasi-facsimile form, with full annotation of sources, allusions, and intentions, as far as they can be interpreted. The text demonstrates the authors' interest in other writers and illustrates the self-assigned exercises in vocabulary-building and poetic techniques used by Hardy to improve his poetic skills. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780198117575
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