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Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings Also by Harold Orel and Published by Pa/Grave Macmillan Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings Also by Harold Orel and published by Pa/grave Macmillan THE FINAL YEARS OF THOMAS HARDY, 1912-28 RUDYARD KIPLING: Interviews and Recollections (2 vols) VICTORIAN LITERARY CRITICS: George Henry Lewes, Henry Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton, Leslie Stephen, Andrew Lang, George Saints bury, Edmund Gosse THE LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT OF REBECCA WEST Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings PREFACES· LITERARY OPINIONS· REMINISCENCES EDITED BY Harold Orel M MACMILLAN ISBN 978-1-349-99973-6 ISBN 978-0-230-37371-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230373716 © Harold Orel 1966 Reprint of the original edition 1966 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended), or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 33-4 Alfred Place, London WCIE 7DP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published University Press of Kansas 1966 and Macmillan 1967 Reissued (Macmillan) 199() Published by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Hardy, Thomas, 1840- 1928 Thomas Hardy's personal writings: prefaces, literary opinions, reminiscences. I. Title II. Orel, Harold, 1926- 828' .808 ISBN 978-0-333-46771-8 TO BILL AND JANE Preface Some years ago, while conducting research for a monograph on the epic aspects of Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts, I became aware of a special problem: the wide scattering of the shorter nonfictional writings of the Wessex poet and novelist. Most of them have not been reprinted. They are occasional pieces of varying length, and the obscure publications in which many of them appeared are no longer current. The most fascinating thing about all of them may be the fact that Hardy prepared them for the press, and carefully wrote them so that they would appear in type exactly as he wished. They constitute a record of Hardy's opinions, extending over a full half-century, that will surely interest his large public throughout the world. Details about the histories of the various texts reprinted herein are given in Richard Little Purdy's bibliographical study, Thomas Hardy (London, 1954). In the years since its appearance that excellent work, a model of textual investigation and annotation, has become the foundation of much Hardy scholarship, including this collection. I have not included any of the uncollected fiction or poetry that Hardy published during his lifetime (with one exception: the charming "How I Built Myself a House"), and I have not tried to reproduce the many brief, unimportant items listed in Part III of Professor Purdy's volume, "Uncollected Contributions to Books, Periodicals, and Newspapers." Some of these consist of a few sentences or even a quotation selected for a special occa­ sion; their interest is limited. They are summarized in the Ap­ pendix, however, on pp. 241-256. Enough remains to make a substantial volume for all readers who want to know more about Hardy-more than twice as much material as Ernest Brennecke collected for his comparable hook, Life and Art (New York, 1925), a work long out of print. The literary prefaces which Hardy wrote or revised for the definitive Vll Wessex Edition of his own writings, as well as the literary prefaces which he contributed to the works of his friends, are gathered here for the first time, providing a fuller understanding of his concept of the creative artist, and of his views of the relationship between art and life. The interview in which Hardy made clear his wishes for the preservation of Stonehenge as a national monument was shaped and edited by Hardy, and should be considered his work. In everything Hardy wrote for publication, he was a profes­ sional. His dedication to the craft of writing will seem even more complete after one has reviewed the contents of this volume; his distinct, strong-minded, remarkably consistent personality imposes unity upon disparate subjects. The separate categories (the prefaces, opinions on literary matters, reminiscences and personal views, and meditations on Dorset) are all autobiographi­ cal to some extent. This is inevitable. Hardy never forgot that he came from Dorset, and that, even when he wrote about Lon­ don and other parts of the world, he was above all else a man of Wessex. AcKNOWLEDGMENTs Special thanks are given to Lloyd's Bank, Ltd., and Miss Irene Cooper Willis, the Executors of the Will of the late Mrs. F. E. Hardy and the Trustees of the Hardy Estate, for permission to reprint the materials. Other acknowledgments are due to Macmillan and Co., Ltd., for permission to include the Prefaces to the Wessex Edition of both the Wessex novels and the verse; Cecil Pope, Esq., Wrackle­ ford House, Dorchester, for the preface to A Book of Remem­ brance; E. Stanley Smith, Clerk to the Governors, Hardy's School, Dorchester, for the address delivered at the laying of the com­ memoration stone of the new Dorchester Grammar School; Commander F. T. Hare (R.N.), Frome Vauchurch House, Maiden Newton, Dorset, for the note on South African farmers and the obituary on Mary Hardy, both printed in the Dorset Vlll County Chronicle; F. E. Moule, Esq., 103 Lcnthay Road, Sher­ borne, Dorset, for the preface to Dorchester Antiquities; W. T. G. Perrott, Hon. Secretary, Society of Dorset Men, 93, The A venue, Muswell Hill, London, for the preface to the Year-Book 1907-1908, the address in the Year-book 1908-1909, and the contribution to the symposium, "Which is the Finest View in Dorset?" in the Year-book 1915-1916, of the Society; Mrs. Ruth Noyes, Librarian, The English Folk Dance and Song Society, Cecil Sharp House, 2, Regent's Park Road, London, for the letter on country-dances and "The College Hornpipe" (as formerly danced in Wessex) in the E. F. D. S. News, and the follow-up letter on English country­ dances in the Journal of the English Folk Dance Society; and Mrs. Monica Dance, Secretary, The Society for the Protection of An­ cient Buildings, 55, Great Ormond Street, London, for "Memories of Church Restoration." Appreciation for special permission to reprint or to quote from Hardy materials is also expressed to Harper & Row, Publishers, for the letter which appeared in The Harper Centennial 1817- 1917; George Newnes Ltd., London, for the letter in fohn o' Lon­ don's Weekly that prefaced the reprinting of Tess of the d'Urber­ villes in 1925; the Bodley Head, Ltd., for the letter to John Lane included in F. H. Cheetham's Louis Napoleon and the Genesis of the Second Empire; Associated Newspapers, Ltd., Northcliffe House, London, for the notes and letters published in the Daily Chronicle, the Daily News, the Daily Mail, and the Westminster Gazette; The Times (London) for various notes and letters, plus the article "Maumbury Ring," which appeared in that newspaper; Diligent Press and Twentieth Century for "G. M.: A Reminis­ cence"; the Guardian, Cross Street, Manchester, for the two let­ ters on Rheims Cathedral, written during the Great War; the National Magazine Co., Ltd., for "How Shall We Solve the Di­ vorce Problem?", originally printed in Nash's Magazine; the Spec­ tator for the letter entitled "Far from the Madding Crowd: A Correction"; the Homeland Association, Ltd., for the preface to Dorchester (Dorset), and Its Surroundings, by F. R. and Sidney lX Heath; the Royal Society of Arts for "The Ancient Cottages of England," published in a pamphlet entitled The Preservation of Ancient Cottages; W. and R. Chambers, Ltd., Edinburgh, for the sketch "Robert Louis Stevenson," contributed to Rosaline Mas­ son's I Can Remember Robert Louis Stevenson; and the New York Times for Hardy's contribution to the symposium, "What is the Best Short Poem in English?" (July 5, 1914). I am also appreciative of the many services rendered by Roger Peers, Esq., Curator and Secretary, Dorset County Museum, Dor­ chester, whose cheerful helpfulness to me as a researcher in the Hardy Collection extended well beyond the call of duty. For encouragement and help, I would like to thank Professors Warner G. Rice and Karl Litzenberg of the University of Michi­ gan, Professors Charles D. Murphy of the University of Maryland, Sylvester H. Bingham of the University of New Hampshire, Frederic E. Faverty of Northwestern University, Clyde K. Hyder, Charlton J. Hinman, and Dean William P. Albrecht of the Uni­ versity of Kansas, Professor Samuel Hynes of Swarthmore Col­ lege, and Dean Walter Wright of the University of Nebraska. This book was made possible, in generous measure, by the support of a grant from the American Philosophical Society. The typing of the final manuscript was paid for by a grant from the Graduate Research Fund of the University of Kansas. A NoTE oN THE TEXT The Prefaces to Thomas Hardy's own writings are reproduced from the Wessex Edition, which Macmillan and Co., Ltd., pub­ lished between 1912 and 1931 in twenty-four volumes. It is true that the revisions and alterations made for the Osgood, Mcilvaine and Co. edition of 1895-1896, in sixteen vol­ umes, were more thoroughgoing than those made for the Wessex Edition. For the earlier edition Hardy had carefully eliminated inconsistencies, clarified topographical matters, and changed titles X of chapters rather freely. In addition, he wrote the Prefaces for the Osgood, Mcilvaine text. But his final views, consisting for the most part of afterthoughts in the form of footnotes and care­ fully dated postscripts, do not change the Osgood, Mcilvaine text so much as expand and enrich it.
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