Achievement of Thomas Hardy - by Phillip Mallett (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

'Now there is a clarity. There is the harvest of having written 20 novels first'. - Ezra Pound. The essays collected here range widely over Hardy's career as both a novelist and a lyric poet. They offer fresh reading of individual works - including his last novel, The Well-Beloved, and his first collection of verse, Wessex Poems - as well as exploring such central topics as the nature of storytelling, and the relations between poetry and song. Challenging, lucid and accessible, these essays provide new insight into the achievement of Thomas Hardy.

Review Quotes

"Now there is a clarity. There is the harvest of having written 20 novels first."" --"Ezra Pound

About the Author

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.