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

[Nathalie Ba]

Dear Bill,
 
I heartily thank you for your message. You and Betty have been very helpful. The absence of information is finally meaningful and turns out to be useful information. 
 
Best,
 
Nathalie.  

--- En date de : Mar 25.11.08, Bill Morgan <wwmorgan at ilstu.edu> a écrit :

De: Bill Morgan <wwmorgan at ilstu.edu>
Objet: RE: [Hardy-l] the missing composition date of 3 of Hardy's poems
À: hardy-l at coyote.csusm.edu
Date: Mardi 25 Novembre 2008, 3h41








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. 

 

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