[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-317964-105":59,"doc-detail-317964-en":131},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":124,"head_meta":126,"extra_data":128,"updated_unix":130},105,"en","a-critical-introduction-to-the-poems-of-thomas-hardy-1-introduction","A Critical Introduction to the Poems of Thomas Hardy - 1 - Introduction","","A critical introduction to Thomas Hardy’s poems, presenting a structured guide through the poet’s life, themes, and artistic development. The contents move from Hardy’s biography to an overall survey of his poetry, then categorize the poems by subject: people, seasons and places, ideas, and love, including subgroups and analyses. The study also points to further reading and provides a complete index for deeper consultation.",{"@graph":69,"@context":123},[70,84,106],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":15,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/a-critical-introduction-to-the-poems-of-thomas-hardy-1-introduction/317964/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/a-critical-introduction-to-the-poems-of-thomas-hardy-1-introduction/317964.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Anda","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-31","2026-09-20",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":105},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",11,{"@type":107,"mainEntity":108},"FAQPage",[109,115,119],{"name":110,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":112},"What parts of Hardy’s life and poetry does the book cover?","Question",{"text":113,"@type":114},"It begins with Hardy’s Life and follows with a general survey of Hardy’s Poetry before moving to topic-based poem groups.","Answer",{"name":116,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":117},"How are the poems organized in the table of contents?",{"text":118,"@type":114},"The contents group poems into categories such as Poems about People, Poems about Seasons, Places and Things, Poems about Ideas, and Love Poems (I and II), with further subdivisions and analyses.",{"name":120,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":121},"Does the book provide tools for further study?",{"text":122,"@type":114},"Yes. It includes sections for Further Reading and a detailed Index to support deeper exploration of Hardy’s verse.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":125,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":127,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":129,"site_id":62},317964,1790243341,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":132},{"doc_id":129,"user_id":133,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":134,"doc_module":4,"category_id":14,"category_name":15,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":135,"file_id":136,"file_url":137,"file_type":138,"file_size":139,"view_count":105,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":140,"language":141,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":142,"faqs":143,"seo_title":144,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":145,"read_time":146},962075006959,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/e0002397efbe92a78e?_k=1776741047341049297","TREVOR JOHNSON  \nA CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONTO THE POEMS 0FTHOMAS HARDY  \nA CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THEPOEMS OF THOMAS HARDY  \nTrevor Johnson has also written:Thomas Hardy(1968)  \nThomas Hardy:An Annotated Reading List(1974)  \nJoseph Andrews by Henry Fielding(A Critical Guide)(1987)  \nHe is the editor of Poems by Thomas Hardy(an anthology)(1979)and the co-editor,with James Gibson,of Thomas Hardy,Poems:a Casebook (of critical comment on Hardy's verse)(1979).  \nA CRITICAL  \nINTRODUCTION TOTHE POEMS OFTHOMAS HARDY  \nTrevor Johnson  \nHENRY ANTHONY TREVOR JOHNSON 1991  \nAllrights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmissionof this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copiedor transmitted save with written permission or in accordance  \nwith the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988 or underthe terms of any licence permitting limited  \ncopying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,33-4 Alfred Place,London WC1E 7DP.  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation tothis publication may be liable to criminal prosecution andcivil claims for damages.  \nFirst published 1991  \nPublished by  \nMACMILLAN EDUCATION LTD  \nHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG212XSand London  \nCompanies and representativesthroughout the world  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataJohnson,Trevor,1929-  \nA critical introduction to the poems of Thomas Hardy.1.Poetry in English.Hardy,Thomas,1840-1928  \nI.Title821.8  \nISBN 978-0-333-49578-0  \nISBN 978-1-349-21221-7(eBook)  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-21221-7  \n1 Introduction1  \n2 Hardy's Life  \n6  \n36  \n3 Hardy's Poetry:a general survey  \n4 Poems about PeopleAutobiographical poemsAnalyses  \n55  \n55  \n63  \nBiographical poemsAnalysesNarrative poemsAnalyses  \n75  \n78  \n82  \n88  \n5 Poems about Seasons,Places and Things98Poems about seasons and places98Analyses110Poems about things,animals,birds,plants,etc.115Analyses123  \n129Satirical poems131Analyses134War poems138Analyses141Poems about God and Nature145Analyses148Reveries149Analyses156  \n6 Poems about Ideas  \n7 Love Poems I170Early love poems172  \nAnalyses178Mature love poems179Analyses193  \n8 Love Poems II:Poems about Emma  \n199  \nLyonnesse poemsAnalyses  \n200  \n207  \nPoems of 1912-13,including AnalysesPoems of marriage,including Analyses  \n216  \n237  \nFurther Reading  \n244  \nIndex  \n250  \nFor my wife,Margaret,without whom I should never finishanything,and my daughters,Sarah and Kate.  \nAcknowledgements  \nThe author and publishers are indebted to The Folio Society fortheir permission to use the wood-engraved portrait of ThomasHardy by Jacques Hnizdovsky which adorns the front coverand to the Librarian and Fellows of Magdalene College,Cambridge for their permission to reproduce Hardy's manus-cript of During Wind and Rain,which forms the frontispiece.  \nThe text used for Hardy's poems is that of Dr James Gibson'sThomas Hardy:The Complete Poems(Macmillan,1976)and I alsoowe a great deal to his Variorum Complete Poems.To the late J.O.Bailey's and to Frank Pinion's handbooks to Hardy's verse I amoften indebted,while no one who writes on Hardy can afford toneglect Michael Millgate's definitive biography.  \nIt would be invidious to single out individuals among themany critics from whose work I have profited over the years,but I take this occasion to thank the many generations ofEnglish students at Mather and at the City of ManchesterColleges,from whose insights into Hardy's poems this bookwill derive a good deal of any value it may have.  \nFinally,to those who may have read my previous articles andessays on Hardy's poetry,and who recognise occasional frag-ments from them embedded in this book,I hope they willforgive me if,where I felt I could not improve on what I hadalready said of a poem,I have let it stand here.  \nTREVOR JOHNSON  \n# Note on abbreviations\n\nThroughout the text I have employed the following abbrevia-tions:  \n(1)Life(or The Life)for The Life of Thomas Hardy by F.","cbCaijNgeSsmTKlv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijNgeSsmTKlv","pdf",25411286,270,"English","# Introduction\n## Hardy's Life\n## Hardy's Poetry: a General Survey\n## Poems about People\n## Poems about Seasons, Places and Things\n## Poems about Ideas\n## Love Poems I\n## Love Poems II: Poems about Emma\n## Further Reading\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What parts of Hardy’s life and poetry does the book cover?\",\"answer\":\"It begins with Hardy’s Life and follows with a general survey of Hardy’s Poetry before moving to topic-based poem groups.\"},{\"question\":\"How are the poems organized in the table of contents?\",\"answer\":\"The contents group poems into categories such as Poems about People, Poems about Seasons, Places and Things, Poems about Ideas, and Love Poems (I and II), with further subdivisions and analyses.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the book provide tools for further study?\",\"answer\":\"Yes. It includes sections for Further Reading and a detailed Index to support deeper exploration of Hardy’s verse.\"}]","A Critical Introduction to the Poems of Thomas Hardy - 1 - Introduction | PDF",1789939140,416]