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 \nfrom A Pair of Blue Eyes to Far from the Madding Crowd1Charles P.C.Pettit  \n2 Geology,Genealogy and Church Restorationin Hardy's Writing22Sophie Gilmartin  \n3 'Gifted,even in November':the Meanings of The Well-Beloved41Michael Irwin  \n4 A Feast of Language:Hardy's Allusions58Mary Rimmer  \n5 'As near to poetry as the conditions would allow':the Presence of the Poet in Hardy's Novels72William Morgan  \n6 Hardy's Architecture:  \na General Perspective and a Personal View95Timothy Hands  \n7 Wessex Poems,1898105James Gibson  \n8 The Figure of the Singer in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy117Danny Karlin  \n9 Thomas Hardy's Narrative Art:the Poems and Short Stories 137Douglas Dunn  \n10 Noticing Things:Hardy and the Nature of 'Nature'155Phillip Mallett  \n11 Rediscovering Thomas Hardy's 'Facts'Notebook171William Greenslade  \n187  \nIndex  \n## Preface\n\nThe essays and lectures collected in this volume are concerned withboth Hardy the novelist and Hardy the poet,and with the relationbetween his two careers as a writer.Unlike Rudyard Kipling and D.H.Lawrence,the two writers who most obviously compare with him inproducing major work in both poetry and prose fiction,Hardy had beenknown as a novelist for twenty-five years before he made his first publicappearance as a poet.The shift from prose to verse signalled by the pub-lication in 1897 of his last novel,The Well-Beloved,and in the follow-ing year of his first collection of poems,Wessex Poems,means thatreaders new to Hardy's work now find themselves making two differentdiscoveries.Hardy the novelist is usually encountered as the slightlyyounger contemporary of Trollope,Wilkie Collins and George Eliot.Trollope's Barchester novels,beginnin","cbCainKC3OmtaSRm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainKC3OmtaSRm","pdf",12109718,210,"English","# Contents\n## Preface","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of the essays in this volume?\",\"answer\":\"The essays and lectures examine Hardy as a novelist and as a poet, and consider how his two careers relate to each other.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the preface describe Hardy’s shift from prose to verse?\",\"answer\":\"It points to the publication of his last novel, The Well-Beloved (1897), and his first collection of poems, Wessex Poems, as signaling a move from prose fiction to poetry.\"},{\"question\":\"Which major comparisons does the preface use to situate Hardy historically?\",\"answer\":\"It compares Hardy with writers such as Rudyard Kipling, D.H. 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