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background\n\nF.B.PINION  \nPALGRAVE MACMILLANST MARTIN’S PRESS  \nNew York  \n1968  \n◎F.B.Pinion 1968Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1968978-0-333-07290-5  \nPublished byMACMILLAN AND CO LTDLittle Essex Street London wc2and also at Bombay Calcutta and Madras  \nMacmillan South Africa(Publishers)Pty Ltd JohannesburgThe Macmillan Company of Australia Pty Ltd MelbourneThe Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd TorontoSt Martin's Press Inc New York  \nLibrary of Congress catalog card no.68-19810  \nISBN 978-1-349-00483-6 ISBN 978-1-349-00481-2(eBook)  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-00481-2  \nTo the memory ofCARL J.WEBER(1894-1966)  \nContents  \nList ofIllustrationspage ixList of MapsXPrefacexiAbbreviationsfor ReferencesxivSequence of Hardy's WorksxviHardy's LifeThe Novels15The Short Stories58Drama101The Poems118Wessex in Transition130Views on Art,Tragedy,and Fiction143Aspects of the Unusual and Irrational152Towards Symbolism162Christianity,Scientific Philosophy,and Politics167Influence and Recollections of:  \n1  \nArchitecture  \n184  \nMusic  \n187  \nPainting  \n193  \nLiterature  \n200  \nDictionary of People and Places in Hardy's Works  \n225  \nGlossary521Hardy's Manuscripts531Select Bibliography533Index551  \n## List of Illustrations\n\nfacing page  \nHardy's birthplace;Higher Bockhampton lane from the Heath14The old manor,Kingston Maurward;Kingston Maurward House15The bootmaker's;the bridge,Lower Bockhampton46The church-hatch,Stinsford;the keeper's cottage,Yellowham Wood 47The County Gaol entrance,Dorchester;George III statue,Weymouth78  \n79  \nLanhydrock House,near Bodmin;Waterston House  \nThe sheep-washing pool;part of the great barn  \n110  \nPuddletown Church;the Devil's Den near Marlborough  \n111  \nCorfe Castle;Lulworth Cove  \n142  \nFirs above'Alderworth’;above 'Shadwater Weir'  \n143  \nPoxwell Manor;Admiral Hardy's house,Portisham  \n174  \nThe White Horse;Faringdon Ruin  \n175  \nThe White Horse Inn,Maiden Newton;original of the Sallows  \n‘waterfall'  \n206  \nThe memorial on Weatherbury Castle;Bridport Road,fromDorchester,1875207  \nThe King's Arms,Dorchester;the Museum building in TrinityStreet  \n238  \n239  \nBeeny Cliff;the Three Mariners  \nDorchester Fair,1835  \n270  \n'Blackwater';the hangman's cottage,Dorchester  \n271  \nGrey's Bridge;Ten Hatches Weir  \n302  \nTurnworth House;Hermitage Church  \n303  \nSherborne Castle ruins;Wolfeton House  \n334  \nThe Abbey gatehouse,Cerne Abbas;gateway,Stalbridge  \n335  \nMarnhull Church and the ‘Pure Drop Inn’;Woolbridge Manor  \n366  \nand the River Frome  \nList of Illustrations  \nThe stone coffin,Bindon Abbey;Cross-in-Hand367The Acorn Inn;'the cottage by the church’,Evershot398Bere Regis Church;'the Caros'cottage'399Sandsfoot Castle;Rufus Castle,Portland430Salisbury Cathedral and Close431The Martyrs'Memorial;the Sheldonian Theatre,Oxford462Grove's Place,Shaftesbury;the Town Cellars,Poole463Townsend,Melbury Osmond494Ridgeway;Fordington Church from the 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