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Thomas Hardy's 'Studies, Specimens &c.' Notebook (Hardcover)
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Thomas Hardy's 'Studies, Specimens &c.' Notebook (Hardcover)
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Thomas Hardy's Studies, Specimens &c. notebook stands almost
alone as a witness to his exertions and aspirations of the 1860s,
when he was already in his middle twenties but still working in
London as an architectual assistant and only tentatively feeling
his way towards as yet dimly glimpsed possibilities of literary
expression and employment. Because so little documentation of any
kind has survived for this early period of his life and work, the
notebook is of extraordinary interest as containing detailed
evidence of the untutored deliberateness with which Hardy was
seeking to provide himself with a poetic background, educate
himself in poetic techniques, and initiate a process from which he
could perhaps emerge as a practising, even a publishing, poet. In
private hands until very recently, and seen by only a very few
scholars, Studies, Specimens &c.' dates from 1865-68, is
entirely in Hardy's own hand, and consists of eighty-eight closely
written pages of working memoranda, and quotations from other poets
- mostly extracts a few words long in which underlining has been
used to highlight individual images and word-usages. Although no
drafts of actual poems are present, there are numerous instances of
Hardy's seeking to generate a poetic, and sometimes erotic,
language and imagery out of materials (e.g., an architectual
textbook) apparently chosen precisley for their recalcitrance to
such treatment. The edition itself seeks to reproduce
typographically all essential features of the original document.
The introductory material describes the notebook bibliographically,
sets it in its biographical context, and discusses some of its more
important technical features. Included in the extensive apparatus
are textual notes, explications of Hardy's occasional quotations -
indicating, in most instances, the editions or actual volumes he
certainly or probably used. Explanatory notes are provided for -
among other things - some erased but now partly recoved memoranda
of Hardy's that appear to have significant biographical
implications.
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