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Volumes IV and V of the Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy,
which complete the edition, contain all of his dramatic writing in
verse. Hardy was Hardy was interested in dramatic verse all his
adult life; before he wrote his first novel he considered writing
plays in blank verse, and during the thirty years of his
novel-writing career he entered in his notebooks many schemes for a
vast poetic drama of England's wars with Napoleon. But it was not
until after he had turned from fiction to poetry, in the 1890s,
that he actually began to work on a poetic drama. The Dynasts was
written between 1902 and 1907; the Famous Tragedy of the Queen of
Cornwall was began in 1916 and completed in 1923.
In addition to the two major dramas this volume includes Hardy's
versions of two folk-pieces: the Mummers'Play of 'Saint George'and
the rustic operetta O'Jan. O'Jan, O'Jan'(here published for the
first time). Textual annotations, together with a full account of
the rough draft of Part Third of The Dynasts, make it possible for
the reader to follow the history of the composition of Hardy's epic
drama in unusual detail. Explanatory notes to each of the dramatic
works describe its composition and publication, and provide
supporting material from Hardy's letters and notebooks. Appendices
add further information on the production and performance of these
works.
Volumes IV and V of the Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, which complete the edition, contain all of his dramatic writing in verse. Hardy was interested in verse drama all his adult life; before he wrote his first novel he considered writing plays in blank verse, and during the thirty years of his novel-writing career he entered in his notebooks many schemes for a vast poetic drama of England's wars with Napoleon. But is was not until after he had turned from fiction to poetry, in the 1890s, that he actually began to work on a poetic drama. The Dynasts was written between 1902 and 1907; The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall was begun in 1916 and completed in 1923. In addition to the two major dramas these volumes include Hardy's versions of two folk-pieces: the Mummers' Play of Saint George' and the rustic operetta O Jan, O Jan, O Jan' (here published for the first time). Textual annotations, together with a full account of the rough draft of Part Third of The Dynasts, make it possible for the reader to follow the history of the composition of Hardy's epic drama in unusual detail. Explanatory notes to each of the dramatic works describe its composition and publication, and provide supporting material from Hardy's letters and notebooks.
"In our imaginations, war is the name we give to the extremes of
violence in our lives, the dark dividing opposite of the connecting
myth, which we call love. War enacts the great antagonisms of
history, the agonies of nations; but it also offers metaphors for
those other antagonisms, the private battles of our private lives,
our conflicts with one another and with the world, and with
ourselves." Samuel Hynes knows war personally: he served as a
Marine Corps pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II,
receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross. He has spent his life
balancing two careers: pilot and professor of literature. Hynes has
written a number of major works of literary criticism, as well as a
war-memoir, Flights of Passage, and several books about the World
Wars. His writing is sharp, lucid, and has provided some of the
most expert, detailed, and empathetic accounts of a disappearing
generation of fighters and writers. On War and Writing offers for
the first time a selection of Hynes's essays and introductions that
explore the traditions of war writing from the twentieth century to
the present. Hynes takes as a given that war itself--the
battlefield uproar of actual combat--is unimaginable for those who
weren't there, yet we have never been able to turn away from it. We
want to know what war is really like: for a soldier on the Somme; a
submariner in the Pacific; a bomber pilot over Germany; a tank
commander in the Libyan desert. To learn, we turn again and again
to the memories of those who were there, and to the imaginations of
those who weren't, but are poets, or filmmakers, or painters, who
give us a sense of these experiences that we can't possibly know.
The essays in this book range from the personal (Hynes's experience
working with documentary master Ken Burns, his recollections of his
own days as a combat pilot) to the critical (explorations of the
works of writers and artists such as Thomas Hardy, e. e. cummings,
and Cecil Day Lewis). What we ultimately see in On War and Writing
is not military history, not the plans of generals, but the
feelings of war, as young men expressed them in journals and poems,
and old men remembered them in later years--men like Samuel Hynes.
This book is intended for hardy scholars and enthusiasts.
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Selected Poetry (Paperback)
Thomas Hardy; Edited by Samuel Hynes
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) remains one of the best loved of the great
English poets. Hardy thought of himself as a poet all his life,
although his poetic career only flowered after he had retired from
novel-writing in his mid-fifties. Over the next thirty years he
wrote the poems that have established him as one of the great and
most enduringly popular English poets of the twentieth century. His
verse touches all the common themes of human existence: birth,
childhood, love, marriage, ageing, death. If Hardy's age brings
anything to them, it is an old man's ironic and elegiac sense that
in life hopes are likely to be defeated and losses sustained, and
that the world was not designed for human happiness. This
collection is prepared by Samuel Hynes, editor of the Oxford
English Texts edition of The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas
Hardy, and selected from the Oxford Authors critical edition. The
introduction and notes illuminate Hardy's central place in the
tradition of English poetry. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years
Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of
literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects
Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate
text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert
introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the
text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Unsubstantial Air is a chronicle of war that is more than a
military history; it traces the lives and deaths of the young
Americans who fought in the skies over Europe in World War I. Using
letters, journals, and memoirs, it speaks in their voices and
answers primal questions: What was it like to be there? What was it
like to fly those planes, to fight, to kill? The volunteer fliers
were often privileged young men. The sort of college athletes and
Ivy League students who might appear in an F. Scott Fitzgerald
novel, and sometimes did. For them, a war in the air would be like
a college reunion. Others were roughnecks from farms and ranches,
for whom it would all be strange. Together they would make one Air
Service and fight one bitter, costly war. A wartime pilot himself,
the memoirist and critic Samuel Hynes tells these young men's saga
as the story of a generation. He shows how they dreamed of
adventure and glory, and how they learned the realities of a
pilot's life, the hardships and the danger, and how they came to
know both the beauty of flight and the constant presence of death.
They gasp in wonder at the world seen from a plane, struggle to
keep their hands from freezing in open-air cockpits, party with
actresses and aristocrats, and search for their friends' bodies on
the battlefield. Their romantic war becomes more than that, it
becomes a harsh but often thrilling new reality.
Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christopher St. John
Sprigg, a British journalist and professional writer who became an
important philosopher and critic in the 1930's, author of Illusion
and Reality and Studies in a Dying Culture. In the mid-thirties
Caudwell joined the Communist Party; he died in 1937 in the defense
of Madrid, leaving the manuscript of Romance and Realism
unpublished. This short but comprehensive book is a Marxist
interpretation of English literature from Shakespeare to Spender.
The author follows the course of English history-the end of
feudalism, the age of exploration, the rise of the common man,
industrialization, science- producing his particular synthesis of
literature as a subjective experience (romance) and as a response
to society (realism). The major writers and movements of English
literature are discussed, often with brilliant observations.
Romance and Realism is important as Marxist criticism, as a
reflection of the acrid definitions of the writers of the thirties
(including Auden, Orwell, C. Day Lewis), and as the highly personal
view of a talented critic. Originally published in 1971. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christopher St. John
Sprigg, a British journalist and professional writer who became an
important philosopher and critic in the 1930's, author of Illusion
and Reality and Studies in a Dying Culture. In the mid-thirties
Caudwell joined the Communist Party; he died in 1937 in the defense
of Madrid, leaving the manuscript of Romance and Realism
unpublished. This short but comprehensive book is a Marxist
interpretation of English literature from Shakespeare to Spender.
The author follows the course of English history-the end of
feudalism, the age of exploration, the rise of the common man,
industrialization, science- producing his particular synthesis of
literature as a subjective experience (romance) and as a response
to society (realism). The major writers and movements of English
literature are discussed, often with brilliant observations.
Romance and Realism is important as Marxist criticism, as a
reflection of the acrid definitions of the writers of the thirties
(including Auden, Orwell, C. Day Lewis), and as the highly personal
view of a talented critic. Originally published in 1971. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The pattern in Hardy's poetry is the eternal conflict between
irreconcilables that was, for him, the first principle, and indeed
the only principle, of universal order. Hynes analyzes this pattern
as it is manifested in the philosophical context of the poems,
their structure, diction, and imagery. Originally published in
1961. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions
use the latest in digital technology to make available again books
from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print.
These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are
presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both
historical and cultural value.
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A Gun for Sale (Paperback)
Graham Greene; Introduction by Samuel Hynes
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Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded
killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with
chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the
nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the murder
is made up of stolen notes and when the first of these is traced,
Raven becomes a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent who has
been double-crossing him and attempts to elude the police, he
becomes both hunter and hunted: an unwitting weapon of a strange
kind of social justice. In doing so, he sets the stage for Greene's
next novel, Brighton Rock. This Penguin Classics edition features
an introduction by Samuel Hynes. For more than seventy years,
Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the
English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin
Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout
history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series
to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes
by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
He was a wide-eyed teenager when he left his Minnesota home in 1943 to learn to fly. By the end of World War II, he was a battle-worn Marine bomber pilot who'd survived more than a hundred missions in the Pacific. With stunning eloquence and breathtaking clarity, Samuel Hynes recalls those extraordinary years: the madness of war and the horror of death, the friendships forged in cockpits and gin mills, the wives and sweethearts left at home, and the wonder of flying—that exquisite harmony between pilot and machine aloft in the insubstantial air. More than a combat tale, this is the story of one man's remarkable rite of passage in that timeless world of innocence gone to war.
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