Thomas Hardy's Studies, Specimens &C. Notebook
Hardy, Thomas / Dalziel, Pamela / Millgate, Michael![Thomas Hardy's Studies, Specimens &C. Notebook](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/226/22682451/CHSBZCOP0322682451.jpg)
Thomas Hardy's "Studies, Specimens &c., " notebook, dating from the mid-1860s, preserves unique evidence of the studies of other writers and the self-assigned exercises in vocabulary-building and poetic techniques by which he so deliberately sought to make himself into a poet at the very beginning of his literary career. This edition presents the manuscript in quasi-facsimile, with full annotation of Hardy's sources, allusions, and intentions,...