Ebook: Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical matter' notebook

Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Editorial Procedures; Hardy's Shorthand; POETICAL MATTER; Annotations; Index.;A meticulously prepared and annotated edition of a previously unpublished and almost unknown Hardy notebook, one of the very few to have survived. Biographically significant because of its preservation of personal notes from old pocket-books subsequently destroyed, 'Poetical Matter' is a unique late working notebook devoted to verse. - ;Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' notebook, the last to be published from among the small group of notebooks not destroyed by Hardy himself or by his executors, has now been meticulously edited with full scholarly annotation. Through its inclusion of so many not.