TY - BOOK AU - Gibson, James, ed. AU - Johnson, Trevor, ed. TI - Thomas Hardy, poems: a casebook T2 - Casebook Series SN - 0333231074 U1 - 821.8 PY - 1979/// CY - London PB - Macmillan KW - English Literature KW - English Fiction-history and criticism KW - Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 KW - Criticism and interpretation N2 - This volume, covering a wide range of critical opinion, charts the gradual process whereby Hardy has achieved general recognition as one of the great English poets. Preluded by Hardy's views on the poetic art and his own work, the selection presents reviews and studies from 1899 to 1975, with contributions by Howard Baker, Jean Brooks, Douglas Brown, David Cecil, E K Chambers, Harold Child, C.B.Cox and A E Dyson, TRM Creighton, Walter DE La Mare, Frank Giordano Jnr, Thom Gunn, Mac Dowall, Kenneth Marsden, William W. Morgan, J. Middleton Murry, I A Richards, L E W Smith, Lytton Strachery and Edward Thomas ER -