[Hardy-l] the missing composition date of 3 of Hardy's poems

[Bill Morgan]

Dear Nathalie-

 

I'm afraid Dennis Taylor's admirable and exhaustive study of the dating of
Hardy's poetry ("The Chronology of Hardy's Poetry") is not much more helpful
than Betty has been: he has nothing to say about "A Poor Man and a Lady"; he
speculates that "Tess's Lament" may have been written sometime shortly after
the novel (so after 1891); and he dates "The Torn Letter" only by its first
publication date of 1910 (as Betty has done).  If there's any evidence out
there about dating your three poems, I'd wager that Dennis would have found
it.  

 

Best,

 

Bill Morgan

 


I cannot find the dates when Hardy wrote the following poems : "A Poor Man
and a Lady", "Tess's Lament" and "The Torn Letter". Could anyone be of some
help? Thanks so much in advance.

 

Nathalie Ba   

 

I don't have the actual dates of composition Natalie, but if the publication
dates are of any use they are as follows.

 

"A Poor Man and a Lady" first published in 1925 in Human Shows .

"Tess's Lament" in 1902 in Poems of the Past and Present.

"The Torn Letter"  first printed in The English Review 1910, then with the
last two stanzas revised in 1914 in Satires of Circumstance. 

 

Betty

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