16 Russell Brain,Tea with Walter de la Mare(London: Faber & Faber, 1957 ),
p. 31.
17 Walter de la Mare, ‘Mr. Hardy’s Lyrics’,Times Literary Supplement, 27
November 1919 , pp. 681 – 2.
18 Edward Thomas,A Literary Pilgrim in England(London: Methuen, 1917 ),
p. 149.
19 Letter from Helen Thomas (n.d. but internal evidence suggests 1920 ), DCM.
20 Edward Thomas, ‘Time’s Laughingstocks’,Morning Post, 9 December 1909 ,
p. 2.
21 Edward Thomas, ‘Mr Hardy’s New Poems’,Daily Chronicle, 7 December
1909 ,p. 3.
22 Edward Thomas, ‘Thomas Hardy of Dorchester’,Poetry and Drama 1 ( 1913 ),
180 – 4 (p. 180 ).
23 Lytton Strachey, ‘Mr Hardy’s New Poems’,New Statesman, 19 December
1914 , pp. 269 – 71. See also John Bayley,An Essay on Hardy(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1978 ), p. 10 ; Samuel Hynes,The Pattern of Hardy’s
Poetry(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1961 ), p. 63.
24 Letter of 18 March 1915 , DCM.
25 Letter of 5 October 1913 ,inHardy,Collected Letters, IV: 1909 – 1914 ( 1984 ),
p. 307.
26 Letter of 21 March 1915 , DCM.
27 Letter of 17 April 1916 , in Hardy,Collected Letters, V, pp. 156 – 7.
28 Hardy,Life,p. 323.
29 Peter Robinson, In the Circumstances: About Poetry and Poets (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1992 ), pp. 60 – 1.
30 Hardy,Thomas Hardy’s Public Voice,p. 250.
31 Hardy,Life,p. 239.
32 Hardy,Thomas Hardy’s Public Voice,p. 199.
33 Hardy,Life,p. 361.
34 James Richardson, Thomas Hardy: The Poetry of Necessity (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1977 ), p. 22.
35 Hardy,Life,p. 153.
36 Ibid.,p. 409.
37 Arthur Schopenhauer,The World as Will and Representation, trans. E. F. J.
Payne, 2 vols. (New York: Dover, 1966 ),II,pp. 357 – 8.
38 Hardy,Literary Notebooks, II, p. 39 , taken from Schopenhauer,World as Will
and Representation, II, p. 434.
39 Robert Rethy, ‘The Metaphysics of Nullity’,Philosophy Research Archives 12
( 1986 ), 357 – 86 ; Cheryl Foster, ‘Ideas and Imagination’, inThe Cambridge
Companion to Schopenhauer, ed. Christopher Janaway (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1999 ), pp. 213 – 51 (p. 224 ).
40 Hardy,Literary Notebooks, II, p. 107.
41 Thomas Hardy,The Dynasts(London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1978 ),
I.V.iv. 99 (p. 147 ).
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