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Date:07/01/04

A search and directory service maintained by Britannica.com Inc. in conjunction with Barnes and Noble and the Washington Post; it combines a capacity to search the Encyclopędia Britannica and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and also to find relevant book citations from the Barnes and Noble web site, news items from the Washington Post, articles from magazines, and links to websites. A subscription is required.

A search for "Thomas Hardy" yielded a biographical/critical article from the Encyclopædia Britannica that was divided into the following parts:

  1. "Introduction,"
  2. "Early Life and Works,"
  3. "Middle Period,"
  4. "Late Novels,"
  5. "Poetry,"
  6. "Assessment,"
  7. "Additional Reading."

The search also provided links to information about or references to Hardy in other articles of the Britannica

  1. "English Literature,"
  2. "Novel Development,"
  3. "Joseph Kirkland."

as well as links headed "The Web's Best Sites," "Magazines," and "Related Books."


COMMENT:

The concise biographical/critical article, with short bibliography, was written for the Micropædia of the Britannica by Michael Millgate and is supplemented by brief remarks in the "English Literature" and "Novel Development" articles; the "Joseph Kirkland" article contains only a reference to Hardy's influence on that American novelist.

"Related Books" provides links to citations of publications offered for sale in the BarnesandNoble.com list (see our Link C 26). "Magazines" consists of links to the texts of articles and reviews in a limited number of magazines--e.g. The New Criterion, Harper's Magazine, and Library Journal; these included David Yezzi's "Thomas Hardy and American Poetry" in an issue of the New Criterion for 1999, an article on "How to Peel a Poem" published in a 1999 issue of Harper's Magazine (with a part devoted to Hardy's "During Wind and Rain"), and several relevant book reviews. "The Web's Best Sites" supplies links to fifteen sites of greatly varying quality and relevance, the most important of which are described and linked from here.

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