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Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' Notebook (Hardcover, New)
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Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' Notebook (Hardcover, New)
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Thomas Hardy's "Poetical Matter" notebook, the last to be published
from among the small group of notebooks not destroyed by Hardy
himself or by his executors, has now been meticulously edited with
full scholarly annotation. Through its inclusion of so many notes
copied by Hardy from old pocket-books subsequently destroyed,
"Poetical Matter" reaches back to all periods of his life, and is
especially valuable from a biographical standpoint for its
expansion and enhancement of knowledge of Hardy's final years and
for its preservation of such intimate records as his richly
revealing memories of the Bockhampton of his childhood and his
sexually charged impressions of a woman glimpsed during a trip on a
pleasure steamer in 1868. Its special distinctiveness nevertheless
lies in its uniqueness as a late working notebook devoted
specifically to verse. Florence Hardy, Hardy's widow, recalled his
having experienced a great outburst of late creativity, feeling
that he could go on writing almost indefinitely, and "Poetical
Matter" bears direct witness to his actively thinking about poetry
and projecting and composing new poems until shortly before his
death at the age of eighty-seven. As such, it contains an abundance
of new ideas for poems and sequences of poems and demonstrates
Hardy's characteristic creative progression, his working variously
with initial ideas, with gathered notes, whether old or new, and
with tentative prose formulations, verse fragments, metrical
schemes, and rhyme patterns, towards the writing of the drafts from
which, yet further worked and reworked, the completed poem would
ultimately emerge.
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