Thomas Hardy's "Studies, Specimens, Etc." Notebook

Thomas Hardy's "Studies, Specimens &c." notebook, dating from the mid-1860s, preserves unique evidence of the studies of other writers and the self-assigned exercises in vocabulary-building and poetic techniques by which he so deliberately sought to make himself into a poet at the very beginning of his literary career. This edition presents the manuscript in quasi-facsimile, with full annotation of Hardy's sources, allusions, and intentions, as far as they can be interpreted.Hardy, Thomas is the author of 'Thomas Hardy's "Studies, Specimens, Etc." Notebook' with ISBN 9780198117575 and ISBN 0198117574.