Achievement of Thomas Hardy

PHILLIP MALLETT is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, where he teaches courses in Victorian and Contemporary literature. He has published essays and articles on writers from Shakespeare to Primo Levi, as well as editing several collections of essays, including Kipling Considered, Satire, and (with R.P.Draper) A Spacious Vision: Essays on Thomas Hardy, together with editions of Rudyard Kipling's Limits and Renewals and Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

• Preface by Philip Mallett Merely a Good Hand at a Serial? from a A Pair of Blue Eyes to Far From the Madding Crowd ; C.Pettit Geology, Genealogy and Church Restoration in Hardy's Writing; S.Gilmartin 'Gifted, even in November': the Meanings of The Well-Beloved ; M.Irwin A Feast of Language: Hardy's Allusions; M.Rimmer 'As Near to Poetry as the Conditions Would Allow': the Presence of the Poet in Hardy's Novels; W.Morgan Hardy's Architecture: a General Perspective and a Personal View; T.Hands Wessex Poems , 1898; J.Gibson The Figure of the Singer in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy; D.Karlin Thomas Hardy's Narrative Art: the Poems and Short Stories; D.Dunn Noticing Things: Hardy and the Nature of 'Nature'; P.Mallett Rediscovering Thomas Hardy's 'Facts' Notebook; W.Greenslade Index

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