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homas ardy s T H ’ oetical atter ‘P M ’ otebook N The opening page (reduced in size) of the ‘Poetical Matter’notebook. homas ardy s T H ’ oetical atter ‘P M ’ otebook N (cid:2) Edited by PAMELA DALZIEL and MICHAEL MILLGATE 1 3 Great Clarendon Street,Oxford ox26dp Oxford University Press is a department ofthe University ofOxford. It furthers the University’s objective ofexcellence in research,scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark ofOxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Introduction,editing,and annotation © Pamela Dalziel and Michael Millgate 2009 Text ofPoetical Matter © Miss Eva Dugdale Will Trust 2009 The moral rights ofthe author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2009 All rights reserved.No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing ofOxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law,or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization.Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope ofthe above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press,at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library ofCongress Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Typeset by RefineCatch Limited,Bungay,Suffolk Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by CPI Antony Rowe Ltd,Wiltshire ISBN 978–0–19–922849–2 13 57 910 86 42 Acknowledgements The editors wish this volume to stand as a special tribute to Bill and Vera Jesty, formerly of Max Gate, whose tireless and richly informed assistance in resolving difficulties of annotation has contributed so much to the completion of this edition,as of so many previous editions of Hardy texts. Also to be warmly thanked are Marjorie Wynne and Vincent Giroud, formerly of the Beinecke Library;Elizabeth James,of the British Library; and the staffs of the Toronto Reference Library,of the Pratt,Robarts,and Fisher Libraries at the University of Toronto, and of Rare Books and Special Collections and the Koerner Library at the University of British Columbia.Richard Landon,director of the Fisher Library,has been co- operative throughout;Sandra Alston extended her voluntary supervision of the Max Gate Library website to include timely interventions in com- puter difficulties; Peter Old was both generous and prompt in making available an important item from his Hardy collection;Andrew McNeillie at the Oxford University Press remained sustainingly enthusiastic about the project throughout,and Jacqueline Baker and Fiona Vlemmiks no less sustainingly patient and supportive;while Lilian Swindall,the volunteer effectively in charge of Hardy materials at the Dorset County Museum, was as always wonderfully helpful in devoting so much time and trouble to searching out long lists of sometimes elusive items. Tony Bradbury, Wayne Chose, Ted Clarke, Eleanor Cook, Debra Dearlove, Eva-Marie Kröller,Ann Payne,Michael Rabiger,Dennis Taylor,and Keith Wilson were also most helpful in a variety of ways,and especially to be mentioned among those who have assisted in the search for the original notebook are the late Richard Purdy, the late Frederick B. Adams, Marie-Louise Adams, Daphne Wood, Barbara Jones, Peter Lennon, Ann Soundy, Roger Peers, James E. Gwin, Rosemarie Morgan, Mary Rimmer, and Julie Hetherington. The editors are above all grateful for the scholarly wisdom of Jane Millgate and the photographic expertise of Bayne Stanley, and for the indispensable patience, support, and practical assistance of both. They also take pleasure in putting on record their appreciation of the generous funding of their work by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research vi acknowledgements Council of Canada and their thanks to the Miss Eva Dugdale Will Trust, proprietor of the Hardy copyrights,for permission to edit and publish the ‘Poetical Matter I’notebook in its entirety. Pamela Dalziel Michael Millgate Contents List of Abbreviations viii Introduction xi Editorial Procedures xxiii Hardy’s Shorthand xxvi POETICAL MATTER 1 Annotations 83 Index 121 List of Abbreviations Beinecke Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University BR Michael Millgate, Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited (Oxford:Oxford University Press,2004) Bullen J.B.Bullen,The Expressive Eye:Fiction and Perception in the Work of Thomas Hardy(Oxford:Clarendon Press,1986) CL The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy,ed.Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate,7 vols. (Oxford: Claren- don Press,1978–88) CPW The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy,ed.Samuel Hynes,5vols.(Oxford:Clarendon Press,1982–95) DCM Dorset County Museum,Dorchester,Dorset ELH Emma Lavinia Hardy Facts Thomas Hardy’s ‘Facts’ Notebook: A Critical Edition, ed. William Greenslade (Aldershot:Ashgate,2004) FEH Florence Emily Hardy Fisher Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto Hutchins John Hutchins,The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset,3rd edn.,corrected,augmented,and improved by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson, 4 vols.(Westminster:Printed by John Bowyer Nichols and Sons,1861–73) LN The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy, ed. Lennart A. Björk,2vols.(London:Macmillan,1985) LW Thomas Hardy,The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy,ed. Michael Millgate (London:Macmillan,1984) OED Oxford English Dictionary OxfordDNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography PN The Personal Notebooks of Thomas Hardy,ed.Richard H. Taylor (London:Macmillan,1978) list of abbreviations ix Purdy Richard Little Purdy, Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study(1954;Oxford:at the Clarendon Press,1968) PV Thomas Hardy’s Public Voice: The Essays, Speeches, and Miscellaneous Prose, ed. Michael Millgate (Oxford: Clarendon Press,2001) Studies,Specimens Thomas Hardy’s ‘Studies, Specimens &c.’ Notebook, ed. Pamela Dalziel and Michael Millgate (Oxford: Clarendon Press,1994) Taylor,Language Dennis Taylor, Hardy’s Literary Language and Victorian Philology(Oxford:Clarendon Press,1993) Taylor,Metres Dennis Taylor, Hardy’s Metres and Victorian Prosody (Oxford:Clarendon Press,1988) TH Thomas Hardy TH Remembered Martin Ray, Thomas Hardy Remembered (Aldershot: Ashgate,2007) W Wessex Edition,i.e.,The Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse,24vols.(London:Macmillan,1912–31) Unless otherwise indicated,all quotations ofTH’s published verse are from CPW,all quotations of his prose fiction from W.
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