THE THOMAS HARDY ASSOCIATION
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DIRECTOR: ROBERT SCHWEIK
© 2000-2004
THOMAS HARDY IN ABERDEEN
DESCRIPTION:
Address: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/english/aberdeen.htm
Contact: Martin Ray (en1090@abdn.ac.uk)
Date: 07/01/04
An account of the events in April, 1905, when Aberdeen University
conferred on Hardy the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The
author, Martin Ray, is
a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English of the University
of Aberdeen.
COMMENT:
A carefully researched study that includes a transcript of the
manuscript of Hardy's poem, "Aberdeen", as well as an
account of the publication of "The Youth Who Carried a
Light," which first appeared in the Aberdeen University
Review in February, 1916.