JOANNA CULLEN BROWN Tutor, Department of Continuing Education, University of Bristol RAYMOND CHAPMAN Professor Emeritus of English, University of London, and Lecturer and Academic Adviser, London Centre of the Institute of European Studies PAMELA DALZIEL Associate Professor of English, University of British Columbia JOHN DOHENY Professor Emeritus of English, University of British Columbia RALPH ELLIOTT Visiting Professor in English and Honorary Librarian, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University SAMUEL HYNES Professor Emeritus of Literature, Princeton University MICHAEL IRWIN Professor of English Literature, University of Kent CHARLES LOCK Professor of English Literature, University of Copenhagen PHILLIP MALLETT Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews MICHAEL MILLGATE University Professor of English Emeritus, University of Toronto HAROLD OREL University Distinguished Professor of English, University of Kansas ROBERT SCHWEIK Honorary Vice-President of the Thomas Hardy Society and Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Emeritus, State University of New York

• Preface; C.P.C.Pettit Notes on the Contributors 'She Matched his Violence with her own Wild Passion': Illustrating Far from the Madding Crowd; P.Dalziel Less than Faithfully Presented: Fictions in Modern Commentaries on Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles; R.Schweik Characterization in Hardy's Jude the Obscure : The Function of Arabella; J.R.Doheny Hardy Promises: The Dynasts and the Epic of Imperialism; C.Lock From Fascination to Listlessness: Hardy's Depiction of Love; M.Irwin 'The Worthy Encompassed by the Inevitable': Hardy and a New Perception of Tragedy; R.Chapman Hardy and Time; P.Mallett How to be an Old Poet: The Examples of Hardy and Yeats; S.Hynes Variations on Two Enigmas: Hardy, Elgar and the Muses; J.C.Brown Thomas Hardy, Epistolarian; R.W.V.Elliott Distracted Preacher: Thomas Hardy's Public Utterances; M.Millgate The Wit and Wisdom of Thomas Hardy; H.Orel Index