Thomas Hardy · Lives of the Poets: Literary Biography from Geoffrey Chaucer to Amy Clampitt

William W. Morgan, Thomas Hardy Scholar and Collector

In 2020, DeGolyer acquired the William W. Morgan Thomas Hardy Collection, numbering over 600 items, including first editions, periodicals, pamphlets, broadsides, secondary works, and association items. Morgan (1940-2022) was a Professor of English at Illinois State University.

THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)

Wessex poems and other verses … with thirty illustrations by the author

London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898

Part of the William W. Morgan Collection. Gift, 2020.

THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)

Poems of the past and present

London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902

Part of the William W. Morgan Collection. Gift, 2020.

THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)

Time’s laughingstocks and other verses

London: Macmillan, 1909

Part of the William W. Morgan Collection. Gift, 2020.

THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)

Satires of circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces

London: Macmillan, 1914

Part of the William W. Morgan Collection. Gift, 2020.

THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)

Moments of vision and miscellaneous verses

London: Macmillan, 1917

Part of the William W. Morgan Collection. Gift, 2020.

THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)

Late lyrics and earlier with many other verses

London: Macmillan, 1922

Part of the William W. Morgan Collection. Gift, 2020.

THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)

Human shows, far phantasies, songs and trifles

London: Macmillan, 1925

Part of the William W. Morgan Collection. Gift, 2020.

THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)

Winter words in various moods and metres

New York: Macmillan, 1928

Part of the William W. Morgan Collection. Gift, 2020.

FLORENCE EMILY HARDY (1879-1937)

The early life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891 compiled largely from contemporary notes, letters, diaries, and biographical memoranda, as well as from oral information in conversations extending over many years, by Florence Emily Hardy

London: Macmillan, 1928

Florence Emily Dugdale Hardy was an English teacher and children’s writer, who was the second wife of the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. She was credited as the author of Hardy’s posthumously published biography, although it was written (mostly or entirely) by Hardy himself in his old age, according to later biographer Robert Gittings.

Part of the William W. Morgan Collection. Gift, 2020

FLORENCE EMILY HARDY (1879-1937)

The later years of Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin’s Street, 1930

“The present volume forms the second and concluding part ... the first part being ‘The early life of Thomas Hardy’, published in 1928”--Page v.

Part of the William W. Morgan Collection. Gift, 2020.

EVELYN HARDY (1902- )

Thomas Hardy: a critical biography

London: Hogarth Press, 1954

Part of the William W. Morgan Collection. Gift, 2020.

ROBERT GITTINGS

Young Thomas Hardy

London: Heinemann, 1975

ROBERT GITTINGS

The older Hardy

London: Heinemann, 1978

TIMOTHY HANDS

A Hardy chronology

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press, 1992

RICHARD LITTLE PURDY (1904-1990)

Thomas Hardy: a bibliographical study

New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library; 2002

First published in 1954, this revised edition by Charles Pettit guides the reader through the mass of material published on Hardy in recent decades and includes significant bibliographical information that has become available since. A descriptive bibliography of a writer is in a sense a biography, a point Dan H. Laurence makes in Portrait of the Author as Bibliography (Library of Congress, 1983)