55 Philip Larkin, ‘Freshly Scrubbed Potato’, in hisRequired Writing(London:
Faber & Faber, 1983 ), p. 166.
56 Michael Cullup, ‘Recovering W. H. Davies’,PN Review 47 ( 1985 ), 36 – 8.
57 Edward Thomas, ‘The Natural Poet’,Bookman, May 1910 , pp. 80 – 1.
58 Pound, ‘William H. Davies, Poet’, p. 99.
59 F. S. Flint, ‘Recent Verse’,New Age 4 ( 1908 ), 95 – 7 (p. 96 ).
60 T. S. Eliot, ‘Reflections on Contemporary Poetry, III’,Egoist 4 ( 1917 ), 151.
61 Thomas, ‘The Natural Poet’, p. 80.
62 Shorter Lyrics of the Twentieth Century(London: Poetry Bookshop, 1922 ), p. 7.
63 T. S. Eliot, The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry, ed. Ronald Schuchard
(London: Faber & Faber, 1993 ), p. 211.CHAPTER 5 HARDY’S INDIFFERENCE
1 Text of all Hardy’s poems taken from theCollected Poetic Works of Thomas
Hardy, ed. Samuel Hynes, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984 ).
2 The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy, ed. Lennart A. Bjo ̈rk, 2 vols.
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985 ), I, 27.
3 Thomas Hardy,TheLifeand Work of Thomas Hardy, ed. Michael Millgate
(London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984 ), p. 324.
4 Repr. in Michael Millgate,Thomas Hardy: A Biography(Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1982 ), p. 89.
5 Thomas Hardy’s Public Voice, ed. Michael Millgate (Oxford: Clarendon,
2001 ), p. 197.
6 D. H. Lawrence,Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays, ed. Bruce Steel
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985 ), p. 91.
7 Hardy,Life,p. 182.
8 Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems, 1797 – 1800 , ed. James Butler and Karen
Green (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992 ), p. 745.
9 See Matthew Campbell,Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1999 ), pp. 212 – 16.
10 Millgate,Thomas Hardy,p. 373.
11 Letter of 1 November 1918 ,inThe Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy,
ed. Richard L. Purdy and Michael Millgate, 7 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon,
1978 – 88 ), V: 1914 – 1919 ( 1985 ), p. 284.
12 Letter of 17 June 1921 ,inThe Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy, ed. Michael
Millgate (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996 ), p. 177.
13 Letterof 6 November 1918 ,Thomas Hardy Memorial Collection, Dorset
County Museum, Dorchester (hereafter DCM).
14 Letter to de la Mare, 15 October 1919 , in Hardy,Collected Letters,V,p. 331.
Letter of 5 March 1928 ,inLetters of Emma and Florence Hardy,p. 274. Hardy,
Life,p. 480.
15 Theresa Whistler,The Imagination of the Heart(London: Duckworth, 1993 ),
pp. 312 , 313.
216 Notes to pages 143 – 52