TY - BOOK AU - Pite,Ralph TI - Thomas Hardy: the guarded life SN - 9780300123371 U1 - 928 PY - 2007/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Authors, English KW - Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928. KW - Authors, English -- Biography -- 19th century. KW - Authors, English -- Biography -- 20th century N1 - Originally published: London : Picador, 2006; Includes bibliographical references (p. [501]-505) and index; Introduction Higher liockhampton I 1 .1 railway bore him through II 2 One who lived and died where he was bom 25 3 She who ufdield me and I 46 4 ’The playground of TH's clnldhood' 61 5 His kindred they, his sweetheart I 74 6 One who walks west, a city-clerk 92 7 If but some vengeful god would call to me 108 8 Red roses and smug nuns 124 9 Believed-in things 136 10 Rising and falling with the tide 149 II With magic in my eyes 166 12 That there should have come a change 186 13 Wasted were two souls in their prime 210 14 Lifelong to be I thought it 228 15 Some hid dread afoot 244 16 No such bower will be known 258 17 Taking the universe seriously 270 18 Life-loyalties 287 19 If the true artist ever weeps 340 20 That we had all resigned for love’s dear ends 321 21 No balm for all your sorrow 342 22 The day goeth away 356 23 Few persons are more martial than I 377 24 We kissed at the barrier 394 25 The mind goes back to the early times 409 26 The sustaining power of poetiy 422 27 No mean power in the contemporaiy world 438 28 - Wistlessness 450 Conclusion - Max Gate 465 ER -