THE THOMAS HARDY ASSOCIATION
LINKS
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DIRECTOR: ROBERT SCHWEIK
© 1998-2004
THE THOMAS HARDY MISCELLANY
DESCRIPTION:
Address: http://www.andover.edu/english/hardymisc/home.html
Contact: John Gould (jgould@andover.edu)
Date: 07/01/04
John Gould is the author of a novel, The Greenleaf
Fires (Scribners, 1978), of a memoir, The
Withering Child (University of Georgia Press, 1995), and of The Grammar of Alistair Barnstable (Avocus Publishing, 2001).
He is on the faculty of Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, USA.
The site is arranged in six major parts:
"Photographs: the Novels" and
"Photographs: Hardy's Life" together provide more than
forty pictures, most naming the photographer
and the date the photo was taken, and each identified and
accompanied by a relevant quotation; these are provided in a
small format which can be changed to a full-screen one. The index
to the photographs is a welcome convenience. The "Hardy Miscellany" consists in part of original essays, with lists of works consulted, on such topics as the military background of Troy in Far from
the Madding Crowd and why The Return of the Native should be an opera. It also includes the text, with a documented introduction by John Gould, of a scarce bit of Hardiana: book collector A. Edward Newton's Thomas Hardy--Novelist or Poet?, Philadelphia, PA, 1929. In addition, there are reviews of books--e.g., of Philip Galvan's I Have Lived With Shades by Jonathan A. Stableford--and web site reviews--e.g., of "Thomas Hardy Country" (see Link A 116)--as well as shorter writings of various sorts. The latest volume of the "Hardy Miscellany" is IV for the year 2000; the last update given is for 2/22/03.
Scattered about the site are texts of "Domicilium," "So, Time," and "The Voice," the latter with an audio clip of a musical setting of the poem by Sean Vernon.
SUMMARY:
The "Hardy Miscellany" is a valuable site, effectively
conjoining text with image and sound in its essay and
review components, as well as providing a useful index to its
photographs and a reprinting of a scarce essay on Hardy.