Thomas Hardy

[wildsweetone]

i'd like to read all of Thomas Hardy's poetry.

does anyone have a book they can recommend, please?

i've searched amazon and not found a 'complete works'. any ideas?

 

[flyguy69]

i'd like to read all of Thomas Hardy's poetry.

does anyone have a book they can recommend, please?

i've searched amazon and not found a 'complete works'. any ideas?

The complete poems of Thomas Hardy / edited by James Gibson.
New York : Macmillan, 1978, c1976

 

[Angeline]

i'd like to read all of Thomas Hardy's poetry.

does anyone have a book they can recommend, please?

i've searched amazon and not found a 'complete works'. any ideas?

Have you read his prose?

Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, and The Mayor of Castorbridge are all wonderful.

 

[wildsweetone]

thanks fly i couldn't see for looking.

no, angeline, i haven't read his prose. i've come across half a dozen of his poems in this last few months and really liked them. i want to read more but my library doesn't have more of his poetry. i'm not sure i want his prose, but i'll try one. (can you see i'm half cringing? will i understand it? )

 

[twelveoone]

Wessex
for starts

I think I ran across a Thomas Hardy website, I can try to find

 

[Angeline]

thanks fly i couldn't see for looking.

no, angeline, i haven't read his prose. i've come across half a dozen of his poems in this last few months and really liked them. i want to read more but my library doesn't have more of his poetry. i'm not sure i want his prose, but i'll try one. (can you see i'm half cringing? will i understand it? )

Don't cringe. He's an easy read. Tess of the D'Urbervilles is his most accessible novel imo. He description of the landscape in which the plot takes place is so vivid as to all but be character on its own.

 

[wildsweetone]

i would expect the Wessex poems to be included in the 'complete works', right?

 

[flyguy69]

Don't cringe. He's an easy read. Tess of the D'Urbervilles is his most accessible novel imo. He description of the landscape in which the plot takes place is so vivid as to all but be character on its own.

The Mayor of Castoroil went down smooth, too.

 

[wildsweetone]

looks like i've got some interesting reading coming up. thanks!

 

[twelveoone]

i would expect the Wessex poems to be included in the 'complete works', right?

probably, but Wessex is free, it's there now

 

[wildsweetone]

i really like bartleby, thank you.

 

[wildsweetone]

ordered Hardy's complete works on amazon ( poor visa ) and picked up Tess of the D'Urbervilles from the library this afternoon.



thank you

 

[bogusbrig]

ordered Hardy's complete works on amazon ( poor visa ) and picked up Tess of the D'Urbervilles from the library this afternoon.



thank you

Read the book first but there is a good film of Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, starring the young Natassja Kinski *swoon*. There is also a good film of Jude The Obscure, starring Kate Winslett and Jude Law. Oh and Far From The Madding Croud starring the young Julie Christie *swoons again*. All good films but as always, always worth reading the books first.

 

[wildsweetone]

reading Tess at the moment. and i'm understanding it! *shock horror* lol

the book i have has a photo from a movie on it, Nastassia Kinski. i see why you're swooning BB.

 

[CharleyH]

i'd like to read all of Thomas Hardy's poetry.

does anyone have a book they can recommend, please?

i've searched amazon and not found a 'complete works'. any ideas?

Book of Hardy? not of poetry, but "Tess of the D'Urberilles"(sp) was an amazing tribute to tragedy?

 

[wildsweetone]

are you telling me or asking me charlie? no matter i have the Hardy book Tess of the D'Urbervilles and am reading it at the moment.



fly did you really try to have a shower with your jeans on? what a fun idea!

 

[chefsuess]

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[Lauren Hynde]

Could the commercial film made of Jude be nearly as bleak and depressing as the novel? Winslett has had a reputation of accepting edgy and daring roles, but I wonder.

Actually, it was with Kate Winslet and Christopher Eccleston, not Jude Law. It's a great movie and very bleak and depressing, but that was the point, obviously.

(The coincidence is funny. I heard about this movie yesterday, on a doco about Eduardo Serra, who was Jude's director of photography.)

 

[wildsweetone]

1003 pages of Thomas Hardy. my first book of poems just turned up today. it's bigger than a doorstop and i am completely over the moon!

i'm loving Tess and i've enjoyed some of Hardy's poetry that i've stumbled across in the last few months and this book is Out Of This World!



can you tell i'm a happy camper?



do you care?



no matter.

look out garden seat, i've got a good book and here i come!

 

[Tzara]

1003 pages of Thomas Hardy. my first book of poems just turned up today. it's bigger than a doorstop and i am completely over the moon!

i'm loving Tess and i've enjoyed some of Hardy's poetry that i've stumbled across in the last few months and this book is Out Of This World!



can you tell i'm a happy camper?



do you care?



no matter.

look out garden seat, i've got a good book and here i come!

I think the first Hardy book I read was The Mayor of Casterbridge. Is there anything more wonderful than finding a new author whose work you really love?

For which, my dear Angeline, I can only say thank you several times (can you spell B-I-L-L K-N-O-T-T and others?). My own set of discoveries.

Happy reading, WSO.

 

[wildsweetone]

Is there anything more wonderful than finding a new author whose work you really love?

yes, plenty. *smile*

but i'm relatively easily pleased with reading.

finding wonderful poetry to read is like walking in the garden in spring time, not like being stuck inside the house and looking through the window at pleasures that might have been.



Happy reading to you too Tzara.



do you know that a cat stole Hardy's heart?

Hardy died in Dorchester, Dorset, on January 11, 1928. His ashes were cremated in Dorchester and buried with impressive ceremonies in the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. According to a literary anecdote his heart was to be buried in Stinsford, his birthplace, and all went according to plan, until a cat belonging to the poet's sister snatched the heart off the kitchen, where it was temporarily kept, and disappeared into the woods with it.

from: The Free Library

i have to admit that's the first time i heard of the cat.

one of the books i picked up from the library (The Penguin Poetry Library, Hardy, Poems Selected By David Wright) said his ashes are laid in the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey and his heart is buried in the grave of his first wife at Stinsford, next to the tombs of his parents.

i would have loved to be a fly on the wall when the lawyer read his Will to the family.

 

[wildsweetone]

well, i had to renew it from the library half a dozen times and i got waylaid by Life and stuff but man oh man, this story was definately worth reading. Thomas Hardy has plot, character development down pat, and description skills dripping out his ears.

Angeline, thank you for the recommendation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

i plan on reading Jude the Obscure during the Christmas break.

 

[Angeline]

well, i had to renew it from the library half a dozen times and i got waylaid by Life and stuff but man oh man, this story was definately worth reading. Thomas Hardy has plot, character development down pat, and description skills dripping out his ears.

Angeline, thank you for the recommendation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

i plan on reading Jude the Obscure during the Christmas break.

You're welcome. Jude the Obscure is my favorite--though, I admit, that I think Jude was kind of a dope. Less contemplation of his navel would have made me like him more.

I also really like The Mayor of Casterbridge, but that may be because I saw the movie before I read the novel. Alan Bates was in it and I used to think he was pretty hawt.

 

[wildsweetone]

belly buttons are delicious. oh i see what you mean.

Bates has interesting eyes.

i think i'm going to have to buy these books, my librarian is beginning to give me funny looks for renewing the books so often.

i've decided not to wait on Jude, i'll start on him tonight.

i'm hungry.