DeGolyer: William Morgan's Thomas Hardy Materials
Title
DeGolyer: William Morgan's Thomas Hardy Materials
Subject
Thomas Hardy and the Hardy community
Description
William Morgan was a Hardy Scholar who published essays and reviews over Hardy’s poetry and Hardy criticism from the early 1970’s to the early 2000’s. This small collection consists of several magazines where Hardy’s poetry was published in the nineteen-teens and twenties. The majority of ephemera comes from various Thomas Hardy festivals and include nine rolls of microfilm with facsimile handwritten manuscripts of Hardy. This collection also has one of the twelve lithograph posters from Hardy’s 1914 play “The Dynasts”, signed by Hardy. The Morgan collection also includes published scholarly articles written by Morgan. The images in this digital collection provide a sampling of the items in the full collection.
Creator
Joy Morrow
Source
William Morgan and Thomas Hardy
Collection Items
Canvas Bag featuring images of Thomas Hardy
a bag from a tourist campaign featuring a series of portraits from Hardy done by Jacqueline Nommick and advertises Casterbridge, Dorchester
"Hardy": Record 2
A vinyl recording of multiple narrators reading poems by Hardy as part of the series "The English Poets from Chaucer to Yeats"
"Hardy": record one
A vinyl recording of multiple narrators reading poems by Hardy as part of the series "The English Poets from Chaucer to Yeats"
Thomas Hardy Enamel Box
A small enamel box from "The Poetry of Love: Enamel Box Collection" made in tribute to Thomas Hardy, with a quote from the Hardy poem "The Voice" and a silhouette of the author on the inside of the lid. On the top of the lid is a nature scene…
Program from a performance at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Features a facsimile copy of Hardy's manuscript of "To Shakespeare after three hundred years"
!["The Noble Lady's Tale" [Poem]](https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/53987/archive/thumbnails/5a602085312d3dcc595765c25f4c498c.jpg?Expires=1769644800&Signature=pxox2WDFVdOZ4i4DraqU-CngVXbXbjcjhHP4V8Vae3kxyMcHMVFu9ByMTm6e9lq1o-SUBULSuACb5EXXLdys-exy4kjgSC0feRHRKAOvqecXVkXyuz0PtQUZt15392UDAtNJfgMw4J%7EiQF%7Eo6Uiu1hQnKVQPo0IZwXME61mNKbb1P0yjrVI%7EasnJB8bEQ3l3gqxUmisMQh-PMNxeqoKA6C5N-eHcSSHzX-GJBpE2GULJ%7EwKeDreeYfkXbvnXYTi5qcH6bqEMDpT%7EFDNE9hAJXgHK5uqS3543NkiulXEj9vJ9Gan7ts%7EUAagiKI9Aov4o-btk7KrsAX5K3fbwx3ynVw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM)
!["Freed the Fret of Thinking" [Poem]](https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/53987/archive/thumbnails/96ca0ee9dc891f73ed1c3341694446e3.jpg?Expires=1769644800&Signature=lKUQ5Ea0x2ReGVz9G09us%7EFcLa%7EGea1qkp5kWwHIz2Mxn720sfnzvBJu7Arxw0k4Kandw5hn7zRgx-R-905shodo7HXzV5ASVKZ7VYOeFb5MqKiYJFDk--97rr-rcg-C5r3WNxKtCAGEtR6AyR8fSXh3aFPGae6Wm1eYKhuaB1RXrGiXlyaRbM6ZNbZBxbbLV35r1yb7X93uiJ7IPYtMSjppZ1haHU9m6N5tXnMICuLe-2FKAJqmgkKwxntnVAs3QdjTJAPisNG9sRN-aQQjI3LMhTRVGjOdHrk3neDtYtN%7E-gqS603jTCJDIMt9ReSZNrX3Rpe7vk4Bhz8PyaAqSw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM)
!["The Poetry of Thomas Hardy" [Essay]](https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/53987/archive/thumbnails/41568199ae40dd3258180ac31060f1cb.jpg?Expires=1769644800&Signature=FqN6w-QY25XOOHV2waMjGU1WJ8rHKZTeoYukLqdIX8F9b%7ErHD9fwypMQbzANUczgclwVGKc-bGCp5KldonZnABGS8yZoCHE3avXsbcV7ZrKbayeZR7C04T2KCdt04GC0H-kCNUtFloct-PYBajXfO42x1dcOspIzaXSFy6aF7Q4L1wYN3A2UtwKrw%7ENV-L2K6-EXLgmfuLn5rkGcTWjl0%7EmeflhhnPf7fSVPNHf7A432hyY9x5MO0qyxetD1Ss49XSybt-EW7pyvE-w8xW4kxQuvat2S9r%7E8LepYy0cjn-qToNKbxWfhsa7W5YkuGlMiFRQLJjwip2kfzdc9izEefw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM)
"Five Unpublished Poems"
Includes an Introduction by Evelyn Hardy and copied handwritten manuscripts.