This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)--the first for nearly thirty years. The edition presents the poetry in a new way by giving the texts of Hardy's original volumes, and reveals the range and variety of his output.

Ralph Pite is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has published extensively on Thomas Hardy, including the biography, Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life (2007) and Hardy's Geography: Wessex and the Regional Novel (2002). He has also published on classical reception and on ecocriticism, particularly in connection with the Romantic period; he is currently completing a study of Edward Thomas's prose. He developed the smartphone app, Romantic Bristol: Writing the City, first launched in 2013, and is a published poet.

• FROM WESSEX POEMS AND OTHER VERSES (1898)


• Preface [extract]


• The Temporary the All


• Hap


• A Confession to a Friend in Trouble


• Neutral Tones


• She


• Her Initials


• Her Dilemma


• She, to Him, I


• a ? , II


• a ? , III


• a ? , IV


• Ditty


• Valenciennes


• San Sebastian


• The Stranger s Song


• The Burghers


• Leipzig


• My Cicely


• Friends Beyond


• Thoughts of Ph a


• Middle-Age Enthusiasms


• In a Wood


• To an Orphan Child


• Nature s Questioning


• The Impercipient


• At an Inn


• In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury


• I Look into my Glass


• FROM POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT (1901)


• Preface [extract]


• War Poems


• Embarcation


• The Dead Drummer


• A Wife in London


• The Souls of the Slain


• The Sick God


• Poems of Pilgrimage


• Genoa and the Mediterranean


• Shelley s Skylark


• In the Old Theatre, Fiesole


• Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter


• Lausanne: In Gibbon s Old Garden


• Miscellaneous Poems


• The Mother Mourns


• A Commonplace Day


• At a Lunar Eclipse


• The Subalterns


• God-Forgotten


• The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God


• Mute Opinion


• To an Unborn Pauper Child


• The Well-Beloved


• A Broken Appointment


• Between us now


• A Spot


• His Immortality


• The Superseded


• An August Midnight


• Winter in Durnover Field


• The Last Chrysanthemum


• The Darkling Thrush


• Mad Judy


• A Wasted Illness


• The Ruined Maid


• The Respectable Burgher on the Higher Criticism


• Her Late Husband


• The Self-Unseeing


• De Profundis I.


• De Profundis II.


• De Profundis III.


• The Lost Pyx: A Mediaeval Legend


• Tess s Lament


• The Supplanter : A Tale


• Imitations, etc.


• From Victor Hugo


• Retrospect


• I have Lived with Shades


• Memory and I


• a???????? ????


• FROM THE DYNASTS (1904-08)


• Part 3, Act VI: scene viii: the road to Waterloo (extract)


• Part 3, Act VII, scene ix: The Wood of Bossu


• Part 3, After Scene (extract)


• From Select Poems of William Barnes. chosen and edited by Thomas Hardy (1908)


• Preface [extract]


• FROM TIME'S LAUGHINGSTOCKS AND OTHER VERSES (1909)


• Preface [Extract]


• Time s Laughingstocks


• The Revisitation


• A Trampwoman s Tragedy


• A Sunday Morning Tragedy


• Bereft


• The Rejected Member s Wife


• The Farm-Woman s Winter


• Autumn in the Park


• Shut out that Moon


• The Dead Man Walking


• Love Lyrics


• The Division


• On the Departure Platform


• The Phantom


• The Night of the Dance


• The Voice of the Thorn


• The Minute before Meeting


• He abjures Love


• A Set of Country Songs


• Let me Enjoy


• At Casterbridge Fair


• I: The Ballad Singer


• II: Former Beauties


• III: After the Club-Dance


• VII: After the Fair


• The Dark-eyed Gentleman


• To Carrey Clavel


• The Spring Call


• Julie-Jane


• Pieces Occasional and Various


• A Church Romance


• The Christening


• A Dream Question


• By the Barrows


• A Wife and Another


• The Roman Road


• After the Last Breath


• In Childbed


• The Pine Planters


• One We Knew


• Before Life and After


• New Year s Eve


• His Education


• Panthera


• The Unborn


• The Man He Killed


• Geographical Knowledge


• One Ralph Blossom Soliloquizes


• G. M., 1828-1909


• FROM THE BOOK OF BABY BEASTS (1911)


• The Polar Bear


• The Rat


• The Calf


• FROM THE BOOK OF BABY BIRDS (1912)


• The Yellow-Hammer


• The Duckling


• The Tropic Bird


• FROM SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE, LYRICS AND REVERIES WITH MISCELLANEOUS PIECES (1914)


• Lyrics and Reveries


• In Front of the Landscape


• Channel Firing


• The Convergence of the Twain


• The Ghost of the Past


• When I set out for Lyonnesse


• A Thunderstorm in Town


• Beyond the Last Lamp


• Lost Love


• My spirit will not haunt the mound"


• Wessex Heights


• The Place on the Map


• Where the Picnic was


• Satires of Circumstance


• I: At Tea


• II: In Church


• VIII: In the Study


• X: In the Nuptial Chamber


• XI: In the Restaurant


• XIV: Over the Coffin


• XV: In the Moonlight


• Lyrics and Reveries (continued)


• The Year s Awakening


• Under the Waterfall


• The Spell of the Rose


• St Launce s revisited


• Poems of 1912-13


• The Going


• Your Last Drive


• The Walk


• Rain on a Grave


• I found her out there


• Without Ceremony


• Lament


• The Haunter


• The Voice


• His Visitor


• A Circular


• A Dream or No


• After a Journey


• A Death-day recalled


• Beeny Cliff


• At Castle Boterel


• Places


• The Phantom Horsewoman


• Miscellaneous Pieces


• The Wistful Lady


• The Woman in the Rye


• The Re-enactment


• The Newcomer s Wife


• A King s Soliloquy


• A Week


• Had you wept


• Bereft, she thinks she dreams


• In the British Museum


• In the Servants Quarters


• Regret not me


• The Telegram


• The Moth-signal


• Seen by the Waits


• Exeunt Omnes


• Postscript


• Men who march away


• FROM THE BOOK OF BABY PETS (1915)


• About Lizards


• FROM MOMENTS OF VISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES (1917)


• Moments of Vision


• The Voice of Things


• Why be at painsa


• We sat at the window


• Afternoon Service at Mellstock


• Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune


• At the Word Farewell


• The Day of First Sight


• Heredity


• You were the sort that men forget


• She, I, and They


• Near Lanivet, 1872


• Copying Architecture in an Old Minster


• To Shakespeare


• Quid hic agisa


• Timing Her


• The Blinded Bird


• The wind blew words


• The Riddle


• To my Father s Violin


• The Change


• The Young Churchwarden


• Lines to a Movement in Mozart s E-flat Symphony


• In the seventies


• The Pedigree


• The Peace-offering


• Something Tapped


• The Wound


• A January Night


• The Announcement


• The Oxen


• An Anniversary


• Transformations


• The Last Signal


• Great Things


• The Figure in the Scene


• Love the Monopolist


• At Middle-field Gate in February


• The Head above the Fog


• Overlooking the River Stour


• The Musical Box


• On Sturminster Foot-bridge


• The Last Performance


• Logs on the Hearth


• The Caged Goldfinch


• The Five Students


• The Wind s Prophecy


• During Wind and Rain


• He prefers her Earthly


• Looking Across


• The Pedestrian


• Who s in the next rooma


• At a Country Fair


• Paying Calls


• Everything Comes


• Midnight on the Great Western


• The Clock-winder


• Old Excursions


• In a Whispering Gallery


• On the Doorstep


• The Clock of the Years


• The Shadow on the Stone


• An Upbraiding


• The Young Glass-Stainer


• While drawing in a Churchyard


• Poems of War and Patriotism


• His Country


• The Pity of It


• In Time of the Breaking of Nations


• Before Marching and After


• A Call to National Service


• I looked up from my writing


• Finale


• Afterwards


• FROM LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER WITH MANY OTHER VERSES (1922)


• Apology [Extract]


• Weathers


• The Maid of Keinton Mandeville


• Summer Schemes


• Faintheart in a Railway Train


• The Garden Seat


• The Curtains now are drawn


• According to the Mighty Working


• Going and Staying


• The Dissemblers


• The Old Gown


• A Duettist to Her Pianoforte


• Where Three Roads joined


• And There was a Great Calm


• The Woman I met


• On Stinsford Hill at Midnight


• The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House


• The Wanderer


• At Lulworth Cove a Century back


• At the Railway Station, Upway


• Side by Side


• The Beauty


• On the Tune called the Old-hundred-and-fourth


• The Opportunity


• The Rift


• Voices from Things growing


• By Henstridge Cross at the Year s End


• The Chapel-Organist


• Fetching her


• Could I but will


• After a Romantic Day


• He follows Himself


• Without, not within Her


• The Little Old Table


• Last Words to a Dumb Friend


• On One who lived and died where He was born


• Outside the Casement


• The Passer-by


• I was the midmost


• The Whitewashed Wall


• The Seven Times


• The Sun s Last Look on the Country Girl


• An Ancient to Ancients


• After reading Psalms XXXIX, XL.


• Surview


• FROM THE FAMOUS TRAGEDY OF THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL (1924)


• Could he but live for me


• FROM HUMAN SHOWS, FAR PHANTASIES, SONGS, AND TRIFLES (1925)


• Waiting both


• Any little Old Song


• The Turnip-hoer


• Circus-rider to Ringmaster


• The Later Autumn


• Let me


• An East-end Curate


• Coming up Oxford Street: Evening


• A Spellbound Palace


• When dead


• Sine Prole


• Ten Years since


• A Sheep Fair


• Snow in the Suburbs


• Ice on the Highway


• Queen Caroline to her Guests


• The Weary Walker


• Last Love-word


• Nobody comes


• In the Street


• So, Time


• Last Look round St. Martin s Fair


• A Leader of Fashion


• When Oats were reaped


• She opened the Door


• The Harbour Bridge


• Vagrant s Song


• The Shiver


• At the Aquatic Sports


• At the Mill


• Alike and Unlike


• The Thing unplanned


• Retty s Phases


• He inadvertently cures his Love-pains


• Known had I


• Shortening Days at the Homestead


• The Paphian Ball


• The Bird-catcher s Boy


• Song to an Old Burden


• Why do Ia


• FROM WINTER WORDS IN VARIOUS MOODS AND METRES (1928)


• Introductory Note [extract]


• The New Dawn s Business


• Proud Songsters


• Thoughts at Midnight


• I am the One


• A Wish for Unconsciousness


• To Louisa in the Lane


• The Love-letters


• Throwing a Tree


• Her Second Husband hears her Story


• Yuletide in a Younger World


• Lying awake


• Childhood among the Ferns


• A Countenance


• Silences


• To a Tree in London


• The Dead Bastard


• The Mongrel


• Concerning Agnes


• We Field-Women


• A Practical Woman


• He never expected much


• Standing by the Mantelpiece


• Christmas: 1924


• Family Portraits


• We are getting to the End


• He resolves to say no more


• FROM FLORENCE HARDY, THE EARLY LIFE OF THOMAS HARDY, 1840-1891 (1928)


• Domicilium


• TH s remarks on poetry from journals and diaries


• FROM FLORENCE HARDY, THE LATER YEARS OF THOMAS HARDY, 1892-1928 (1930)


• TH s remarks on poetry from journals and diaries