The Achievement of Thomas Hardy

Preface by Philip Mallett Merely a Good Hand at a Serial? from a A Pair of Blue Eyes to Far From the Madding Crowd ; C.Pettit Geology, Genealogy and Church Restoration in Hardy's Writing; S.Gilmartin 'Gifted, even in November': the Meanings of The Well-Beloved ; M.Irwin A Feast of Language: Hardy's Allusions; M.Rimmer 'As Near to Poetry as the Conditions Would Allow': the Presence of the Poet in Hardy's Novels; W.Morgan Hardy's Architecture: a General Perspective and a Personal View; T.Hands Wessex Poems , 1898; J.Gibson The Figure of the Singer in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy; D.Karlin Thomas Hardy's Narrative Art: the Poems and Short Stories; D.Dunn Noticing Things: Hardy and the Nature of 'Nature'; P.Mallett Rediscovering Thomas Hardy's 'Facts' Notebook; W.Greenslade Index