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• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsChronologyIntroductionHardys second careerTurning to poetryPoetry as posthumous visionNecessity and free willTypology and the pattern of a lifeSequences and patternsGod and historyHardy and the deadThe Poems of 1912-13Restoration and the pastWessexHardys styleThe Gothic art-principleWordsProsodyHardy and literary traditionSelecting HardyA note on the annotationsA note on the textThe PoemsFrom Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)The temporary the All Hap Neutral Tones The Peasants Confession A Sign-Seeker Friends Beyond Thoughts of Phena Natures Questioning In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury I look into my glass From Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)V.R. 1819-1901Drummer HodgeThe Souls of SlainRome: Building a New Street in the Ancient QuarterRome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and KeatsA Commonplace DayTo an Unborn Pauper ChildHer ReproachHis ImmortalityWinter in Durnover FieldThe Darkling ThrushThe Respectable Burgher on The Higher CriticismThe Self-UnseeingIn Tenebris IIn Tenebris IIIn Tenebris IIITesss LamentSapphic FragmentAΓΝΩΣΤΩӨЕΩFrom Times Laughingstocks and Other Verses (1909)The Revisitation A Trampwomans Tragedy In the Minds Eye He Abjures Love Let Me Enjoy Julie-Jane The Dead Quire Night in the Old Home After the Last Breath One We Knew George Meredith, 1828-1909 Yellham Woods Story A Young Mans Epigram on Existence From Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries (1914)In Front of Landscape Channel Firing The Convergence of Twain When I set out for Lyonnesse Wessex Heights A Singer Asleep Self-Unconscious Under the Waterfall Poems of 1912-13The GoingYour Last DriveThe WalkRain on a GraveI found her out thereWithout CeremonyLamentThe HauntThe VoiceHis VisitorA CircularA Dream or NoAfter a JourneyA Death-Day RecalledBeeny CliffAt Castle BoterelPlacesThe Phantom HorsewomanThe Spell of RoseSt Launces RevisitedWhere the Picnic WasThe Obliterate TombThe WorkboxExeunt OmnesA PoetIn the CemeteryFrom Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917)Moments of Vision The Voice of Things Apostrophes to an Old Psalm Tune At the Word Farewell Heredity Near Laniet, 1872 Copying Architecture in an Old Minster To Shakespeare Quid Hic Agis? On a Midsummer Eve The Blinded Bird The Statue of Liberty The Change Lines to a Movement in Mozarts E-Flat SymphonyThe PedigreeHis Heart: A Womans DreamThe OxenThe PhotographThe Last SignalThe Figure in the SceneOverlooking the River StourThe Musical BoxOld FurnitureThe Five StudentsThe Winds ProphecyDuring Wind and RainA Backward SpringHe Revisits His First SchoolI thought, my heartThe Shadow on the StoneFor Life I had never cared greatlyThe Pity of ItIn Time of The Breaking of NationsA New Years Eve in War TimeI looked up from my writingAfterwardsFrom Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922)Weathers According to the Might Working The Contretemps And There Was a Great Calm The Selfsame Song At Lulworth Cove a Century Back The Collector Cleans His Picture On the Tune Called the Old-Hundred-and-fourth Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard After a Romantic Day In the Small Hours Last Words to a Dumb Friend A Drizzling Easter Morning I was the midmost The Inscription The Whitewashed Wall After Reading Psalms XXXIX, XL, etc. Surview From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)Waiting Both A Bird-Scene at a Rural Dwelling In a Former Resort after Many Years A Cathedral Façade at Midnight The Monument-Maker The Later Autumn An East-End Curate Sine Prole A Sheep Fair Snow in the Suburbs A Light Snow-Fall after Frost Music in a Snowy Street In Sherborne Abbey The Mock Wife Not only I Her Haunting-Ground Days to Recollect This Summer and Last Nothing matters much Before My Friend Arrived The Bird-Cathers Boy Song to an Old Burden Why do I?From Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)The New Dawns Business Proud Songsters The Prophetess A Wish for Unconsciousness The Love-Letters Throwing a Tree Lying Awake Childhood Among the Ferns A Poets Though I watched a blackbird A Nightmare, and the Next Thing So Various An Evening in Galilee We field-women He Never Expected Much Standing by the Mantelpiece Our Old Friend Dualism Drinking Song The Aged Newspaper Soliloquizes Christmas: 1924 The Boys Dream Family Portrait Christmas in the Elgin Room We are getting to the end He Resolves to Say No More From Hardys Uncollected PoemsThoughts from Sophocles The Eve of Waterloo Prologue Epilogue On One Who Thought No Other Could Write Such English as Himself Selections from Hardys AutobiographyAppendix I: Two Early Versions of Poems by HardyAppendix II

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• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsChronologyIntroductionHardys second careerTurning to poetryPoetry as posthumous visionNecessity and free willTypology and the pattern of a lifeSequences and patternsGod and historyHardy and the deadThe Poems of 1912-13Restoration and the pastWessexHardys styleThe Gothic art-principleWordsProsodyHardy and literary traditionSelecting HardyA note on the annotationsA note on the textThe PoemsFrom Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)The temporary the All Hap Neutral Tones The Peasants Confession A Sign-Seeker Friends Beyond Thoughts of Phena Natures Questioning In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury I look into my glass From Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)V.R. 1819-1901Drummer HodgeThe Souls of SlainRome: Building a New Street in the Ancient QuarterRome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and KeatsA Commonplace DayTo an Unborn Pauper ChildHer ReproachHis ImmortalityWinter in Durnover FieldThe Darkling ThrushThe Respectable Burgher on The Higher CriticismThe Self-UnseeingIn Tenebris IIn Tenebris IIIn Tenebris IIITesss LamentSapphic FragmentAΓΝΩΣΤΩӨЕΩFrom Times Laughingstocks and Other Verses (1909)The Revisitation A Trampwomans Tragedy In the Minds Eye He Abjures Love Let Me Enjoy Julie-Jane The Dead Quire Night in the Old Home After the Last Breath One We Knew George Meredith, 1828-1909 Yellham Woods Story A Young Mans Epigram on Existence From Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries (1914)In Front of Landscape Channel Firing The Convergence of Twain When I set out for Lyonnesse Wessex Heights A Singer Asleep Self-Unconscious Under the Waterfall Poems of 1912-13The GoingYour Last DriveThe WalkRain on a GraveI found her out thereWithout CeremonyLamentThe HauntThe VoiceHis VisitorA CircularA Dream or NoAfter a JourneyA Death-Day RecalledBeeny CliffAt Castle BoterelPlacesThe Phantom HorsewomanThe Spell of RoseSt Launces RevisitedWhere the Picnic WasThe Obliterate TombThe WorkboxExeunt OmnesA PoetIn the CemeteryFrom Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917)Moments of Vision The Voice of Things Apostrophes to an Old Psalm Tune At the Word Farewell Heredity Near Laniet, 1872 Copying Architecture in an Old Minster To Shakespeare Quid Hic Agis? On a Midsummer Eve The Blinded Bird The Statue of Liberty The Change Lines to a Movement in Mozarts E-Flat SymphonyThe PedigreeHis Heart: A Womans DreamThe OxenThe PhotographThe Last SignalThe Figure in the SceneOverlooking the River StourThe Musical BoxOld FurnitureThe Five StudentsThe Winds ProphecyDuring Wind and RainA Backward SpringHe Revisits His First SchoolI thought, my heartThe Shadow on the StoneFor Life I had never cared greatlyThe Pity of ItIn Time of The Breaking of NationsA New Years Eve in War TimeI looked up from my writingAfterwardsFrom Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922)Weathers According to the Might Working The Contretemps And There Was a Great Calm The Selfsame Song At Lulworth Cove a Century Back The Collector Cleans His Picture On the Tune Called the Old-Hundred-and-fourth Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard After a Romantic Day In the Small Hours Last Words to a Dumb Friend A Drizzling Easter Morning I was the midmost The Inscription The Whitewashed Wall After Reading Psalms XXXIX, XL, etc. Surview From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)Waiting Both A Bird-Scene at a Rural Dwelling In a Former Resort after Many Years A Cathedral Façade at Midnight The Monument-Maker The Later Autumn An East-End Curate Sine Prole A Sheep Fair Snow in the Suburbs A Light Snow-Fall after Frost Music in a Snowy Street In Sherborne Abbey The Mock Wife Not only I Her Haunting-Ground Days to Recollect This Summer and Last Nothing matters much Before My Friend Arrived The Bird-Cathers Boy Song to an Old Burden Why do I?From Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)The New Dawns Business Proud Songsters The Prophetess A Wish for Unconsciousness The Love-Letters Throwing a Tree Lying Awake Childhood Among the Ferns A Poets Though I watched a blackbird A Nightmare, and the Next Thing So Various An Evening in Galilee We field-women He Never Expected Much Standing by the Mantelpiece Our Old Friend Dualism Drinking Song The Aged Newspaper Soliloquizes Christmas: 1924 The Boys Dream Family Portrait Christmas in the Elgin Room We are getting to the end He Resolves to Say No More From Hardys Uncollected PoemsThoughts from Sophocles The Eve of Waterloo Prologue Epilogue On One Who Thought No Other Could Write Such English as Himself Selections from Hardys AutobiographyAppendix I: Two Early Versions of Poems by HardyAppendix II

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• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsChronologyIntroductionHardys second careerTurning to poetryPoetry as posthumous visionNecessity and free willTypology and the pattern of a lifeSequences and patternsGod and historyHardy and the deadThe Poems of 1912-13Restoration and the pastWessexHardys styleThe Gothic art-principleWordsProsodyHardy and literary traditionSelecting HardyA note on the annotationsA note on the textThe PoemsFrom Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)The temporary the All Hap Neutral Tones The Peasants Confession A Sign-Seeker Friends Beyond Thoughts of Phena Natures Questioning In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury I look into my glass From Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)V.R. 1819-1901Drummer HodgeThe Souls of SlainRome: Building a New Street in the Ancient QuarterRome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and KeatsA Commonplace DayTo an Unborn Pauper ChildHer ReproachHis ImmortalityWinter in Durnover FieldThe Darkling ThrushThe Respectable Burgher on The Higher CriticismThe Self-UnseeingIn Tenebris IIn Tenebris IIIn Tenebris IIITesss LamentSapphic FragmentAΓΝΩΣΤΩӨЕΩFrom Times Laughingstocks and Other Verses (1909)The Revisitation A Trampwomans Tragedy In the Minds Eye He Abjures Love Let Me Enjoy Julie-Jane The Dead Quire Night in the Old Home After the Last Breath One We Knew George Meredith, 1828-1909 Yellham Woods Story A Young Mans Epigram on Existence From Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries (1914)In Front of Landscape Channel Firing The Convergence of Twain When I set out for Lyonnesse Wessex Heights A Singer Asleep Self-Unconscious Under the Waterfall Poems of 1912-13The GoingYour Last DriveThe WalkRain on a GraveI found her out thereWithout CeremonyLamentThe HauntThe VoiceHis VisitorA CircularA Dream or NoAfter a JourneyA Death-Day RecalledBeeny CliffAt Castle BoterelPlacesThe Phantom HorsewomanThe Spell of RoseSt Launces RevisitedWhere the Picnic WasThe Obliterate TombThe WorkboxExeunt OmnesA PoetIn the CemeteryFrom Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917)Moments of Vision The Voice of Things Apostrophes to an Old Psalm Tune At the Word Farewell Heredity Near Laniet, 1872 Copying Architecture in an Old Minster To Shakespeare Quid Hic Agis? On a Midsummer Eve The Blinded Bird The Statue of Liberty The Change Lines to a Movement in Mozarts E-Flat SymphonyThe PedigreeHis Heart: A Womans DreamThe OxenThe PhotographThe Last SignalThe Figure in the SceneOverlooking the River StourThe Musical BoxOld FurnitureThe Five StudentsThe Winds ProphecyDuring Wind and RainA Backward SpringHe Revisits His First SchoolI thought, my heartThe Shadow on the StoneFor Life I had never cared greatlyThe Pity of ItIn Time of The Breaking of NationsA New Years Eve in War TimeI looked up from my writingAfterwardsFrom Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922)Weathers According to the Might Working The Contretemps And There Was a Great Calm The Selfsame Song At Lulworth Cove a Century Back The Collector Cleans His Picture On the Tune Called the Old-Hundred-and-fourth Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard After a Romantic Day In the Small Hours Last Words to a Dumb Friend A Drizzling Easter Morning I was the midmost The Inscription The Whitewashed Wall After Reading Psalms XXXIX, XL, etc. Surview From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)Waiting Both A Bird-Scene at a Rural Dwelling In a Former Resort after Many Years A Cathedral Façade at Midnight The Monument-Maker The Later Autumn An East-End Curate Sine Prole A Sheep Fair Snow in the Suburbs A Light Snow-Fall after Frost Music in a Snowy Street In Sherborne Abbey The Mock Wife Not only I Her Haunting-Ground Days to Recollect This Summer and Last Nothing matters much Before My Friend Arrived The Bird-Cathers Boy Song to an Old Burden Why do I?From Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)The New Dawns Business Proud Songsters The Prophetess A Wish for Unconsciousness The Love-Letters Throwing a Tree Lying Awake Childhood Among the Ferns A Poets Though I watched a blackbird A Nightmare, and the Next Thing So Various An Evening in Galilee We field-women He Never Expected Much Standing by the Mantelpiece Our Old Friend Dualism Drinking Song The Aged Newspaper Soliloquizes Christmas: 1924 The Boys Dream Family Portrait Christmas in the Elgin Room We are getting to the end He Resolves to Say No More From Hardys Uncollected PoemsThoughts from Sophocles The Eve of Waterloo Prologue Epilogue On One Who Thought No Other Could Write Such English as Himself Selections from Hardys AutobiographyAppendix I: Two Early Versions of Poems by HardyAppendix II