Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MAP showing the area around Higher Bockhampton and Max Gate

PROLOGUE

 

PART ONE: 1840–1867

  1 Mother

  2 Child

  3 The Bookish Boy

  4 Friends and Brothers

  5 The Londoner

 

PART TWO: 1867–1874

  6 The Clever Lad’s Dream

  7 Lyonnesse

  8 The True Vocation

  9 Easy to Die

10 A Short Visit to the Continent

 

PART THREE: 1875–1905

11 Dreaming the Heath

12 Hardy Joins a Club

13 The Tower

14 The Conformers

15 The Blighted Star

16 Tom and Em

17 The Terra-cotta Dress

18 A Witch and a Wife

19 Cat, Bird, Eagle, Sphinx

 

PART FOUR: 1905–1928

20 Convergence

21 Satires of Circumstance

22 A Friend from Cambridge

23 The Wizard

24 Winter Words

 

EPILOGUE

ILLUSTRATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

TEXT AND ILLUSTRATION PERMISSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS