The complete poems of Thomas Hardy
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xxxvi, 1002 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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"Thomas Hardy was fifty-eight before his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems, was published in 1898. By the time of his death in 1928, he was known as one of Britain's most distinguished poets. In The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy, James Gibson has compiled the first complete edition of verse by this nineteenth-century Englishman. Included are previously uncollected poems, among which are examples of Hardy's finest work--"Domicilium" and the songs from The Dynasts. Three years after the publication of Wessex Poems, in 1901, Hardy published Poems of the Past and the Present, followed by Time's Laughingstocks in 1909, Satires of Circumstance (1914), and Moments of Vision (1917). The first edition of Collected Poems appeared in 1919, followed by four revised printings. The fourth and final edition, published in 1930, contains 918 Hardy poems. Thomas Hardy was an English novelist concerned with the part that fate plays in the lives of men and women. He often attacked the uncritical optimism popular in Great Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria. Many critics consider Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) and The Return of the Native (1878) his best novels. His other books include Far From the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders, and Jude the Obscure. Born in Dorsetshire, the "Wessex" that forms the setting of much of his writing, Hardy was apprenticed to a church architect at 16. He began writing poetry at 23 but interrupted his career to work as an architect for ten years. Desperate Remedies, his first novel, was published anonymously in 1871. The next year the highly successful Under the Greenwood Tree appeared. Hardy primarily wrote fiction until 1898, when his first volume of verse appeared. He then devoted himself to writing poetry full-time." -- Dust jacket
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Hardy, T., & Gibson, J. (1978). The complete poems of Thomas Hardy (First American edition.). Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc..

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 and James Gibson. 1978. The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 and James Gibson. The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc, 1978.

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Hardy, T. and Gibson, J. (1978). The complete poems of thomas hardy. First American edn. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Hardy, Thomas, and James Gibson. The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy First American edition., Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., 1978.

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