Publisher's Synopsis
An anthology of 25 essays on British novelist and poet Hardy''s (1840-1928) poetry, ranging from Edmund Grosse's 1918 "Mr Hardy's Lyrical Poems," to Joseph Brodsky''s 1998 "Wooing the Inanimate." Other well known contributors include T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, and John Crowe Ransome.