Miserable Creatures
C.H. Sisson, 2 August 1984
The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Vol. IV: 1909-1913
edited by Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate.
Oxford, 337 pp., £21, March 1984,0 19 812621 2 Show More
edited by Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate.
Oxford, 337 pp., £21, March 1984,
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper. Vol. IV: 1792-1799
edited by James King and Charles Ryskamp.
Oxford, 498 pp., £48, March 1984,0 19 812681 6 Show More
edited by James King and Charles Ryskamp.
Oxford, 498 pp., £48, March 1984,
The Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account
by Robert M. Adams.
Norton, 555 pp., £21, March 1984,0 393 01704 4 Show More
by Robert M. Adams.
Norton, 555 pp., £21, March 1984,
The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy. Vol. II
edited by Samuel Hynes.
Oxford, 543 pp., £35, June 1984,0 19 812783 9 Show More
edited by Samuel Hynes.
Oxford, 543 pp., £35, June 1984,
“... The fourth volume of the Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy opens with a recommendation for Mr Harry Pouncy, ‘Lecturer and Entertainer’, of Dorchester, apparently with a view to his extending his fascinations to a wider public. There follows a note to Desmond MacCarthy suggesting – surely with the firm touch of a provincial or a Victorian survivor – that it would be better if the New Quarterly were called instead the Quarterly Herald or Quarterly Clarion, ‘or some such ... ”