Lock, Charles, "Hardy and the Nature of Fiction" in Thomas Hardy, St. Martin's Press, 1992, pp. 84—138.
This chapter of Lock's study of Hardy focuses on Hardy's artistic theory, drawn from his fiction and other writings.
Ray, Martin, The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy: Allusions and Annotations, Thomas Hardy Association, 2003, CD-ROM.
Hardy's works in general, and this novel in particular, are packed with references to folk songs and other writers. This work catalogs the exact sources for references to Shelley, Wordsworth, Milton, Tennyson, Swinburne, Byron, and Keats, along with.....
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