Description: [ENGLISH POETRY] HARDY, Thomas"HUMAN SHOWS FAR PHANTASIES; Songs and Trifles"London. Macmillan. 1925. First Edition. Octavo. 279 pp. Bound in original green cloth with gilt title to spine and gilt 'Thomas Hardy' device to top panel. Internally, save for a few minor spots to prelims, spotless and fresh. A near fine copy complete with the original printed dustjacket. Dustjacket with chipping to spine tips and some loss south of author's name on spine.A clean and respectable copy of Hardy's last major work to be published in his lifetime.This was the first of Hardy’s collections of poetry since 'Wessex Poems' that the publishers issued in an American edition as well as an English. Worthy of a fine literature collection. _______________________Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles is the penultimate collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1925. A miscellaneous collection, Human Shows included old, new, and updated poems.The most cheerful of Hardy's collections, Human Shows has been seen as reflecting something of an Indian summer on its author's part: he himself, in his introduction to Winter Words, feared that he had been “too liberal in selecting flippant, not to say farcical, pieces into the collection”. A pastoral tone prevails, often dramatising characters from Hardy's fiction, and at times Hardy even seems to burlesque some of his own tragic themes - of ironic accidents and patterned fate – as in the sketch "Snow in the Suburbs". The collection includes more serious poems as well – memories of friends and family gone, as well as of his first wife Emma. "Alike and Unalike" records the beginning dissension in his marriage with his attachment to Florence Henniker; and "Nobody Comes" records his lonely wait for his second wife Florence Dugdale to return after an operation in London. Please email any questions.
Price: 129.99 USD
Location: Beverly Hills, California
End Time: 2024-11-09T20:41:41.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6.13 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Binding: Cloth
