Ecstatic Sound'

This book studies the ways Hardy writes about music, and argues that this focus allows for a close and varied investigation of the affective dimensions of his poetry and fiction, and his recurrent preoccupations with time, community and love.

John Hughes

Contents: Introduction; 'Souls unreconciled to life'; 'Those unaccountable sensations'; 'The beats of being'; 'Till time seemed fiction'; 'Let every man make a philosophy for himself out of his own experience'; Bibliography: Index.