title: The Essential Hardy (Essential Poets) (Vol 21)
author:  Thomas Hardy 
description: 1967<br /> After A Journey<br /> Afterwards<br /> An Ancient To Ancients<br /> 'and There Was A Great Calm'<br /> At A Lunar Eclipse<br /> At Casterbridge Fair: 1. The Ballad-singer<br /> At Casterbridge Fair: 2. Former Beauties<br /> At Casterbridge Fair: 3. After The Club-dance<br /> At Casterbridge Fair: 4. The Market-girl<br /> At Casterbridge Fair: 5. The Inquiry<br /> At Casterbridge Fair: 6. A Wife Waits<br /> At Casterbridge Fair: 7. After The Fair<br /> At Castle Boterel<br /> At Lulworth Cove A Century Back<br /> A Broken Appointment<br /> By Henstridge Cross At The Year's End<br /> Christmas: 1924<br /> The Church Builder<br /> The Comet At Yell'ham<br /> The Convergence Of The Twain; Lines On Loss Of The Titanic<br /> The Darkling Thrush<br /> Drummer Hodge<br /> During Wind And Rain<br /> Evelyn G. Of Christminister<br /> First Or Last (song)<br /> For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly<br /> The Going<br /> Going And Staying<br /> Hap<br /> The Haunter<br /> Haunting Fingers; A Phantasy In A Museum Of Musicial Instruments<br /> He Resolves To Say No More<br /> Heredity<br /> Horses Aboard<br /> How She Went To Ireland<br /> I Found Her Out There<br /> I Look Into My Glass<br /> I Looked Up From My Writing<br /> I Said To Love<br /> In A Cathedral City<br /> In A London Flat<br /> In A Museum<br /> In A Wood<br /> In Death Divided<br /> In Front Of The Landscape<br /> In Tenebris: 1<br /> In Tenebris: 2<br /> In The Moonlight<br /> In Time Of 'the Breaking Of Nations'<br /> The Last Signal<br /> Leipzig<br /> Let Me Enjoy (minor Key)<br /> Lying Awake<br /> The Missed Train<br /> Mute Opinion<br /> Near Lanivet, 1872<br /> Neutral Tones<br /> The Newcomer's Wife<br /> No Buyers (a Street Scene)<br /> Nobody Comes<br /> Old Furniture<br /> On An Invitation To The United States<br /> On The Departure Platform<br /> The Oxen<br /> The Phantom Horsewoman<br /> The Pity Of It<br /> The Protean Maid (song)<br /> The Rambler<br /> Regret Not Me<br /> The Reminder<br /> The Roman Gravemounds<br /> The Roman Road<br /> Rome. At The Pyramid Of Cestius Near The Graves Of Shelley<br /> The Rover Come Home<br /> The Ruined Maid<br /> The Satin Shoes<br /> The Schreckhorn<br /> The Selfsame Song<br /> Shelley's Skylark<br /> Shut Out That Moon<br /> The Souls Of The Slain<br /> Starlings On The Roof<br /> The Subalterns<br /> Timing Her<br /> To Flowers From Italy In Winter<br /> To Lizbie Browne<br /> Transformations<br /> The Two Soldiers<br /> Under The Waterfall<br /> Vagg Hollow<br /> The Voice<br /> We Say We Shall Not Meet<br /> Wessex Heights<br /> When Dead<br /> Where The Picnic Was<br /> The Widow Betrothed<br /> Your Last Drive<br /> Epitaph On A Pessimist<br /> -- <i>Table of Poems from <a href="/exec/obidos/subst/partners/marketing/poemfinder.html/${0}">Poem Finder</a></i>
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  T H E C O M P L E T E C R I T I C A L G U I D E T O
  
  
  T H O M A S H A R D Y
  
  
  _Thomas Hardy: last of the Victorians, or first of the moderns?_
  
  
  _Great novelist, but supreme poet?_
  
  
  _Pre-eminent commentator on a culture in transition?_
  
  
  So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but
  most books focus on one aspect of an author’s life or work, or limit
  themselves to a single critical approach. _The Complete Critical_ _Guide to
  Thomas Hardy_ is part of a unique series of comprehensive, user-friendly
  introductions which:
  
  
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  offer basic information on an author’s life, contexts and works
  
  
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  outline the major critical issues surrounding the author ’s works, from the
  time they were written to the present
  
  
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  leave judgements up to you, by explaining the full range of often very
  different critical views and interpretations
  
  
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  offer guides to further reading in each area discussed.
  
  
  This series has a broad focus