A Wordsworth Companion: Survey and Assessment

Literature & Fiction

PINION, F.B.

British & Irish

Pearson

A Brontë companion: Literary assessment, background, and reference

Reference

Barnes&Noble Books

D.H. Lawrence Companion: Life, Thought, and Works

History & Criticism

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Hardy the Writer

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This up-to-date and highly informative biography contains new disclosures and interpretations of evidence, and observes commendable proportions, neglecting nothing significant in Hardy's early years, and providing the most relevant details on his later life. It draws from innumerable sources, including all his published writings (not least the poems), biographies of him and of contemporaries, correspondence of friends and acquaintances, Emma Hardy's diaries, and many unpublished letters from her and Florence Hardy. Except for brief background introductions which indicate how some of Hardy's friends (ranging chronologically from William Barnes and Horace Moule to Colonel Lawrence and Siegfried Sassoon) influenced his career or enriched his life, this biography keeps very closely in touch with him and his literary work and interests. The division between him and Emma is a dominant issue. On this and elsewhere, wherever uncertainty is inherent, the author provides the available evidence without any fictional assertion. His work is well organized, cogent, and full of interest.

Thomas Hardy: His Life and Friends

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

St. Martin's Press, 1992

Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

A Bronte Companion: Literary Assessment, Background and Reference (Literary Companions)

A D. H. Lawrence companion: Life, thought, and works

Macmillan

<p>This critical survey of George Eliot's works includes a biographical introduction and a brief account of the historical events that played a part in her fiction. Numerous quotations from her letters ensure that the most valuable aspects of Eliot's thought are adequately conveyed. An appendix dwells on Eliot's influence on Thomas Hardy.</p>

A George Eliot Companion: Literary Achievement and Modern Significance (Literary Companions)

A T.S.Eliot Companion: Life and Works (Literary Companions)

This dictionary provides explanations of references and rare words or words used with rare meanings, sources of quotations and allusions, identifications of fictional places and people with critical and informative comments on all Hardy's novels and short stories, his drama, at least 500 of his poems, his major symbols and important influences on this thought and creativity which constitute the bulk of this work. It intends to provide insight and guidance on many questions, from those arising incidentally to those which are more pervasive; for example on meliorism, chance, Old Style reckoning, the eleventh commandment, the origins of Poorgrass's multiplying eye, and of the Shockerwick Houe scene, the location of Lewgate, and the significance of the title "Where Three Roads Joined". Notes are given for Hardy's prefaces and most important essays and links with his life are made throughout. The author has written "A Hardy Companion", "Thomas Hardy: Art and Thought", "A Commentary on the Poems of Thomas Hardy" (with Evelyn Hardy), "One Rare Fair Woman" as well as works on Jane Austen, the Brontes, George Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Wordsworth, Tennyson and T.S. Eliot.

A Thomas Hardy dictionary: With maps and a chronology

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