Thomas Hardy wrote In St. Paul's a While Ago at the end of the 1860s; initially, its title was In St. Paul's: 1869. By that date, Hardy was twenty-nine, and had been writing poetry for a decade; he ...composed his earliest known poem, Domicilium, between 1857 and 1860. He had written his first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady (1867), since lost, and he was five years from the success of Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), which allowed him to abandon his architectural career. In St. Paul's a While Ago, like Coming Up Oxford Street: Evening (1872), records a perambulation of the capital taken between Hardy's two periods in residence. The poem's speaker visits the cathedral on a July afternoon, and imagines that, were the apostle Paul to speak 'on his own steps', the 'haunters' of the 'encircling mart' would dismiss the saint as 'An epilept enthusiast'. Hardy set another Pauline verse at a London institution.
NOTES FROM THE CHAIR LANGE, HELEN
Thomas Hardy journal,
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The Birthday Weekend is reported on later in the Journal, so suffice it for me to say what an appropriately joyous and positive weekend it was. There is a report on the inaugural meeting of 30 May in ...this Journal and we met again on 22 August, for Readings on a Summer Theme. ...I hope you have liked what you have seen of our new lines of merchandise.
Talking of gifts, our newly revamped merchandise offerings are in the same category, and are worth checking out on line or via our office here. First email received at the Hardy office gets the book. ...Part of the reason must be the internet as it was yet to be 'invented', as were mobile phones! MIKE NIXON NEW MERCHANDISE Some exciting new items are being added to the merchandise the Hardy Society has on offer!
Kim discusses horse imagery in Thomas Hardy's fiction. Informed by Victorian physiology, Hardy dexterously draws on horse imagery in his fiction. Hardy employs near-identical horse imagery to ...highlight the action of the unconscious brain. In Chapter XI of A Pair of Blue Eyes, the heroine Elfride's lovesickness manifests itself in rapid mood swings as she persists in the attempt to elope for a secret marriage. In conclusion, Tess of the d'Urbervilles reveals a consequence of an unhappy working of the social organism. By the subtle use of equine imagery, Hardy underscores that the power relation between the horse and the horseman, one way or another, can bring about social ills of Victorian society.
After a couple of emails confirming the colours of the merchandise, and interestingly, some intensive research regarding shipping carriers, the large package was dispatched to Mexico - and arrived ...safely, much to the joy of the recipient and us! Another outlet for our merchandise Whilst on the subject of our excellent merchandise, we are always seeking ways of bringing it to the attention of the general public,(as well as to remind members of what's available with Christmas coming) and we have established an excellent new outlet in the lovely village of Evershot (Hardy's Evershead), at their village shop. Today you can walk through a dense forest of darkness when you come to the area that has been cleared, and in the right season, is a carpet of bluebells.
Hardy's poetry, and the arguments similar to those set out in his recent book (Thomas Hardy 's Pastoral: An Unkindly May), in which he shows that Hardy's familiarity with the real circumstances of ...rural life is influenced by other factors, such as Hardy's social status on the one hand, and the relation between his poetry and the classical pastoral on the other. Adrian Flynn's talk ('The Ambridge Woodlanders - The Archers' Debt to Thomas Hardy') was one of the most entertaining this week, comparing Hardy's technique for 'cliff hangers' with that of a writer/ producer for that long-standing English institution, The Archers. Since most of Hardy's novels were initially written in episodes, Adrian showed us that anyone who writes for a 'soap' can learn a lot from him. ...he manages to put in so much of his soul into the readings, I for one would miss hearing him read. ...members of the Hardy Society Council of Management must be thanked for once again smoothly organising a successful conference.
Thomas Hardy's Groundwork Wright, Daniel
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Thomas Hardy strategically exposes what he calls the “groundwork” of his fictional worlds in scenes depicting blizzards or total darkness that scrub away all points of orientation. When Hardy reveals ...the empty field—”forms without features”—within which the details of the novel take shape, he aims to investigate the ontological, rather than epistemological or aesthetic, questions raised by novelistic realism. By tracing Hardy's groundwork through several novels, primarily
Far from the Madding Crowd
(1874), The
Return of the Native
(1878), and
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
(1891), the essay shows that Hardy's vexed relation to the realist tradition arises out of the metaphysical paradoxes endemic to novelistic mimesis.
Maxted talks about Thomas Hardy's markings in his copy of Henry Vaughan's "Sacred Poems and Pious Ejaculations," and their significance to "The Darkling Thrush." In 1937, Thomas Hardy's library at ...Max Gate was bequeathed to the Dorset Museum. Hardy annotated many of his books, sometimes to clarify or to correct, occasionally to interpret. More often, he underlined words or phrases, or drew marginal verticals beside lines or passages. The very status, in Hardy, of source and allusion is disputed. Hardy is English literature's most fabled autodidact.
