[Hardy-l] help with a citation?
Rosemarie Morgan
Rosemarie.morgan at yale.edu
Tue Jan 29 10:30:16 PST 2008
11. on Page 197:
"... 18 Wessex and the Border Thomas Hardy was born a few miles from
Tolpuddle, a few years after the deportation of the farm labourers who had
come ..."
12. on Page 198:
"... of desire and possibility. In this characteristic world, rooted and
mobile, familiar yet newly conscious and self-conscious, the figure of
Hardy stands like a land- ..."
13. on Page 199:
"... WESSEX AND THE BORDER 199 mark. It is not from an old rural world or
from a remote region that Hardy now speaks to us; but from the heart of a
still active experience, of the familiar and the changing, which ..."
14. on Page 200:
"... 200 THE COUNTRY AND THE CITY peasantry. Secondly, Hardy is none of
these people. Outside his writing he was one of the many professional men
who worked within this ..."
15. on Page 201:
"... of a vocation thwarted or damaged by a mistaken marriage, and we shall
have to look again at this characteristic Hardy deadlock. ..."
16. on Page 203:
"... `the monotony of his occupation soothed him, and was in itself a
pleasure'. All this is understood and controlled by Hardy
Rosemarie
>Dear Scholars,
>
>I am unable to find the citation for a Raymond Williams' essay, "Wessex
>and the Border (1973)," pages 190-205. The last page (p. 205) lists the
>source as extracts from ch. 18 of his The Country and the City. This essay
>is not in his normal publications, and I suspect I found it in a book of
>Hardy essays or somesuch. Any wise pointers out there, por favor?
>
>Kevin T.
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