Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses
Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses is a collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1909. It includes poems of various dates,[1] mainly concerned with rural, familial and provincial life.[2]
Dates and thematics
The collection contains poems of various dates, with almost a third of its 94 poems having been published before the book's publication.[3] A not untypical thematic stress on life's ironies is present,[4] though Hardy himself was insistent that the title phrase was a poetic image only, and not to be taken as a philosophical belief.[5] He also pointed out that behind the "I" of the poems stood not autobiography so much as "dramatic monologues by different characters".[6]
Significant poems
Hardy himself considered "A Trampwoman's Tragedy" the best of all his poems.[7] Gilbert Murray thought "He Abjures Love" had a Horatian quality; and Ezra Pound saw "The Revisitation" as anticipating Hardy's Poems 1912-13.[8]
See also
- Casterbridge Fair
References
- ^ D. Wright ed., Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (Penguin 1978) p. 442
- ^ I. Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (Cambridge 1993) p. 943
- ^ N. Wenborn, Reading Thomas Hardy (2012) p. 52
- ^ I. Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (Cambridge 1993) p. 943
- ^ T. & F. Hardy, Thomas Hardy (Ware 2007) p. 419-20
- ^ D. Wright ed., Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (Penguin 1978) p. 442
- ^ I. Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (Cambridge 1993) p. 943
- ^ M. Seymour-Smith, Thomas Hardy (London 1994) p. 307 and p. 682
External links
- The complete text
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- Desperate Remedies (1871)
- Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)
- A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)
- Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
- The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)
- The Return of the Native (1878)
- The Trumpet-Major (1880)
- A Laodicean (1881)
- Two on a Tower (1882)
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
- The Woodlanders (1887)
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891/92)
- Jude the Obscure (1895)
- The Well-Beloved (1897)
- Wessex Tales (1888)
- A Group of Noble Dames (1891)
- Life's Little Ironies (1894)
- A Changed Man and Other Tales (1913)
- "The Three Strangers" (1883)
- "A Mere Interlude" (1885)
- "Alicia's Diary" (1887)
- "Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1891)
- "The Fiddler of the Reels" (1893)
- "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions" (1894)
- Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)
- Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
- Time's Laughingstocks (1909)
- Poems 1912–13
- Satires of Circumstance (1914)
- Moments of Vision (1917)
- Late Lyrics (1922)
- Human Shows (1925)
- Winter Words (1928)
- "Neutral Tones" (1898)
- "The Darkling Thrush" (1900)
- "The Ruined Maid" (1901)
- "The Respectable Burgher" (1901)
- "The Man He Killed" (1902)
- "A Trampwoman's Tragedy" (1903)
- "The Convergence of the Twain" (1915)
- "The Blinded Bird" (1916)
- The Dynasts (1904–1908)
- The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall (1923)
- Thomas Hardy's Wessex
- Winter Words (song cycle)
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