Thomas Hardy : the critical heritage

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
SERIES-TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 11
NOTE ON THE TEXT......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
DESPERATE REMEDIES......Page 40
1. From an unsigned review, Athenaeum......Page 42
2. Unsigned review, Spectator......Page 44
3. Unsigned review, Saturday Review......Page 48
UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE......Page 52
4. From an unsigned review, Athenaeum......Page 54
5. Horace Moule, Saturday Review......Page 56
A PAIR OF BLUE EYES......Page 60
6. Unsigned review, Saturday Review......Page 62
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD......Page 66
7. From an unsigned review, Athenaeum......Page 68
8. R.H.Hutton, Spectator......Page 70
9. Henry James, Nation......Page 76
10. Unsigned Review, Westminster Review......Page 80
11. Andrew Lang, Academy......Page 84
12. Unsigned review, Saturday Review......Page 88
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE......Page 94
13. Unsigned review, Athenaeum......Page 96
14. W.E.Henley, Academy......Page 98
15. Unsigned review, Saturday Review......Page 100
16. Unsigned review, Spectator......Page 106
17. Survey, New Quarterly Magazine......Page 110
THE TRUMPET MAJOR......Page 120
18. Unsigned review, Athenaeum......Page 122
19. Julian Hawthorne, Spectator......Page 124
20. Survey, British Quarterly Review......Page 128
A LAODICEAN......Page 142
21. From an unsigned review, Athenaeum......Page 144
TWO ON A TOWER......Page 146
22. Unsigned review, Saturday Review......Page 148
23. Harry Quilter, Spectator......Page 152
24. Havelock Ellis, ‘Thomas Hardy’s Novels’, Westminster Review......Page 154
THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE......Page 178
25. From an unsigned review, Athenaeum......Page 180
26. From an unsigned review, Saturday Review......Page 182
27. R.H.Hutton, Spectator......Page 184
THE WOODLANDERS......Page 188
28. Unsigned review, Athenaeum......Page 190
29. R.H.Hutton, Spectator......Page 192
30. Coventry Patmore, St. James’s Gazette......Page 196
31. From an unsigned review, Saturday Review......Page 200
32. William Wallace, Academy......Page 204
33. J.M.Barrie, ‘Thomas Hardy: the Historian of Wessex’, Contemporary Review......Page 206
34. Edmund Gosse, ‘Thomas Hardy’, The Speaker......Page 216
35. William Minto, ‘The Work of Thomas Hardy’, Bookman......Page 220
TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES......Page 226
36. Richard le Gallienne, the Star......Page 228
37. Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette......Page 232
38. Unsigned review, Athenaeum......Page 236
39. Clementina Black, Illustrated London News......Page 240
40. From an unsigned review, Saturday Review......Page 242
41. R.H.Hutton, Spectator......Page 246
42. Andrew Lang, New Review......Page 250
43. William Watson, Academy......Page 252
44. Mrs. Oliphant, Blackwood’s Magazine......Page 258
45. Mowbray Morris, ‘Culture and Anarchy,’ Quarterly Review......Page 268
46. W.P.Trent, ‘The Novels of Thomas Hardy’, Sewanee Review......Page 274
47. Andrew Lang, a rejoinder, Longman’s Magazine......Page 288
48. D.F.Hannigan, Westminster Review......Page 294
JUDE THE OBSCURE......Page 298
49. Unsigned Review, Athenaeum......Page 300
50. W.D.Howells, Harper’s Weekly......Page 304
51. Mrs. Oliphant, ‘The Anti-Marriage League’, Blackwood’s Magazine......Page 308
52. Edmund Gosse, Cosmopolis......Page 314
53. D.F.Hannigan, Westminster Review......Page 322
54. Unsigned review, Illustrated London News......Page 326
55. Richard le Gallienne, Idler......Page 328
56. Unsigned review, Saturday Review......Page 330
57. A.J.Butler, ‘Mr. Hardy as a Decadent’, National Review......Page 334
58. R.Y.Tyrrell, Fortnightly Review......Page 340
59. Havelock Ellis, ‘Concerning Jude the Obscure’, Savoy Magazine......Page 348
THE WELL-BELOVED......Page 360
60. Unsigned review, Athenaeum......Page 362
WESSEX POEMS......Page 366
61. Unsigned review, Saturday Review......Page 368
62. Unsigned review, Academy......Page 372
63. E.K.Chambers, Athenaeum......Page 376
POEMS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT......Page 380
64. Unsigned review, Saturday Review......Page 382
65. T.H.Warren, Spectator......Page 386
THE DYNASTS, PART FIRST......Page 390
66. Max Beerbohm, ‘Thomas Hardy as Panoramatist’, Saturday Review......Page 392
67. John Buchan, Spectator......Page 396
68. Edward Wright, ‘The Novels of Thomas Hardy’, Quarterly Review......Page 400
THE DYNASTS, PART THIRD......Page 416
69. Harold Child, The Times Literary Supplement......Page 418
70. From an unsigned review Edinburgh Review......Page 424
71. Henry Newbolt, ‘A New Departure in English Poetry’, Quarterly Review......Page 436
72. W.L.Phelps, from Essays on Modern Novelistś......Page 444
73. F.Manning, ‘Novels of Character and Environment’, Spectator......Page 454
74. Charles Whibley, ‘Thomas Hardy’, Blackwood’s Magazine......Page 458
75. Harold Williams, ‘The Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy’, North American Review......Page 468
SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE......Page 480
76. Lytton Strachey, New Statesman......Page 482
77. Laurence Binyon, Bookman......Page 486
78. Edmund Gosse, ‘Mr. Hardy’s Lyrical Poems’, Edinburgh Review......Page 490
Select Bibliography......Page 508
Index......Page 510