Thomas Hardy - Couverture souple

Hardy, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0192822683 ISBN 13 : 9780192822680

Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1994

Synopsis

Thomas Hardy remains one of the best loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his popularity from the elegiac tone of much of his best verse and the universality of his subject matter. This selection of his work represents all of Hardy's verse collections - giving generous samples from his finest. Much of the poetry dates from the final decades of his life, by which time he had abandoned novel-writing. They are "old man's poetry" in their concern with the passing of time and the sharp sense of hopes defeated and losses sustained. Yet always these lyrics are contained within controlled metrical patterns, through which Hardy demonstrated his genius for mastering poetical form.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) remains one of the best loved of the great English poets. Hardy thought of himself as a poet all his life, although his poetic career only flowered after he had retired from novel-writing in his mid-fifties. Over the next thirty years he wrote the poems that have established him as one of the great and most enduringly popular English poets of the twentieth century. His verse touches all the common themes of human existence: birth, childhood, love, marriage, ageing, death. If Hardy's age brings anything to them, it is an old man's ironic and elegiac sense that in life hopes are likely to be defeated and losses sustained, and that the world was not designed for human happiness. This collection is prepared by Samuel Hynes, editor of the Oxford English Texts edition of The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, and selected from the Oxford Authors critical edition. The introduction and notes illuminate Hardy's central place in the tradition of English poetry. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192822683
• ISBN 13: 9780192822680
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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