Thomas Hardy Winter Words First Edition 1928 London Dust Jacket Rare!

Thomas Hardy Winter Words First Edition 1928 London Dust Jacket Rare! (image 3/[null, null, null, null])

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Up for auction Winter words by Thomas Hardy (Rare distinction of being one of the best novelists of the nineteenth century and one of the finest poets of the twentieth.) 1928 first edition London published with original dust jacket unclipped (rare)The book measures 8 inches in height 199 pages All pages are complete and binding All boards are attached This dust jacket is in very good condition with light edge wear Thomas Hardy ads in back of dust jacketPublisher is McMillan and Company LTD LondonYou also get an insert dated September 1975 from the Totteridge bookshop - the insert shows the buyer has purchased this first edition of Thomas Hardy (see my photo).The book is in very good condition! The boards are clean, the dust jacket is clean there is no owners name or messy inscription. Any flaws? - The book has a very slight slant to it, very light rubbing on board corners and top of bottom spine and hinge. The green covered boards also have a Thomas Harding design and emblem on the front board, Gold gilt lettering on spine. A fine addition to any Thomas Hardy collectible winter words is wonderful! The poems take you right there.. back 100 years ago.. right back to the street, to the Christmas, to the tailor, to the love letters, to England, UK the damp dreary weather.. its like Downton Abbey in a book!!! The Book is in very good condition! Very clean The dust jacket very light edgewear on corners , top and bottom of spine.I put the dust jacket in a Mylar cover for you Check out my other items ! Be sure to add me to your favorites list ! These poems were put together and some of them were never published before until this book was published in 1928 !limited ed!Very rare to find the dust jacket with this book!!! About Thomas Hardy /wiki/Thomas_Hardy More about Hardy.... ....However, Hardy’s lyric poetry is by far his best known, and most widely read. Incredibly influential for poets such as W.H. Auden , Philip Larkin , and Robert Frost , Hardy forged a modern style that nonetheless hewed closely to poetic convention and tradition. Innovative in his use of stanza and voice, Hardy’s poetry, like his fiction, is characterized by a pervasive fatalism. In the words of biographer Claire Tomalin, the poems illuminate “the contradictions always present in Hardy, between the vulnerable, doomstruck man and the serene inhabitant of the natural world.” Hardy’s lyrics are intimately and directly connected to his life: the great poems of 1912 to 1913 were written after the death of Emma on November 27, 1912. Some of these works are dated as early as December, 1912, a month after her death, and others were composed in March of the following year, after Hardy had visited St. Juliot, Cornwall, where he first met Emma. Tomalin described Emma’s death as “the moment when Thomas Hardy became a great poet,” a view shared by other recent critics. Hardy’s Emma poems, Tomalin goes on to point out, are some the “finest and strangest celebrations of the dead in English poetry.” Hardy was notorious for his relationships with younger women throughout his life, and he married Florence Dugdale, a woman almost forty years his junior, shortly after Emma’s death. Hardy’s Emma poems, then, according to Thomas Mallon in the New York Time, are “racked with guilt and wonder.” They are poems in which he attempts to come to terms with the loss of both his wife and his love for her, many years earlier. Though frequently described as gloomy and bitter, Hardy’s poems pay attention to the transcendent possibilities of sound, line, and breath—the musical aspects of language. As Irving Howe noted in Thomas Hardy, any “critic can, and often does, see all that is wrong with Hardy’s poetry but whatever it was that makes for his strange greatness is hard to describe.” Hardy’s poetry, perhaps even more so than his novels, has found new aud... read more

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