Reviews
'The esteem in which The Dynasts was held for over thirty years after Hardy's death has landed it in the Oxford English Texts, and its editor has paid it the compliment of restoring it to Hardy's poetical works. He has also treated its text with the scholarly minuteness such a masterwork deserves...this thorough edition of Hardy's master works is a landmark in hardy scholarship, and should be a point of reference for all commentators on Hardy.'The Dorset Year Book'meticulous edition'Times Literary Supplement'With Volumes IV and V Samuel Hynes completes his immensely painstaking, definitive edition of Hardy's 'poetical works', begun in 1982. The effect is to throw the text, as Hynes establishes it, into clear relief. He does, indeed, establish it: his 'editorial task' has been to reconcile the several differing editions.'English Studies, Volume 77, Number 3, May 1996'On each page of these two volumes there is clear evidence of Samuel Hynes's meticulous scholarship and enormous dedication. The textual variants alone are extraordinarily large in number, but Professor Hynes has supplemented them with explanatory notes, fascinating introductions, and a series of useful appendices.'J.B. Bullen, Reading University, Review of English Studies, Vol. XLVII, No. 188, Nov ' 96'These two volumes complete this important edition.'Nineteenth-Century Literature 51:3 (December 1996)'Hynes's choice of copy-text gives particular clarity to the listing, at the foot of the page, of all printed variants.'Charles Lock, University of Copenhagen, Essays in Criticism, Vol. XLVII, No. 3, July '97, 'With Volumes IV and V Samuel Hynes completes his immensely painstaking, definitive edition of Hardy's 'poetical works', begun in 1982. The effect is to throw the text, as Hynes establishes it, into clear relief. He does, indeed, establish it: his 'editorial task' has been to reconcile theseveral differing editions.'English Studies, Volume 77, Number 3, May 1996, 'Hynes's choice of copy-text gives particular clarity to the listing, at the foot of the page, of all printed variants.'Charles Lock, University of Copenhagen, Essays in Criticism, Vol. XLVII, No. 3, July '97, 'The esteem in which The Dynasts was held for over thirty years after Hardy's death has landed it in the Oxford English Texts, and its editor has paid it the compliment of restoring it to Hardy's poetical works. He has also treated its text with the scholarly minuteness such a masterworkdeserves...this thorough edition of Hardy's master works is a landmark in hardy scholarship, and should be a point of reference for all commentators on Hardy.'The Dorset Year Book, 'On each page of these two volumes there is clear evidence of Samuel Hynes's meticulous scholarship and enormous dedication. The textual variants alone are extraordinarily large in number, but Professor Hynes has supplemented them with explanatory notes, fascinating introductions, and a seriesof useful appendices.'J.B. Bullen, Reading University, Review of English Studies, Vol. XLVII, No. 188, Nov ' 96, 'These two volumes complete this important edition.'Nineteenth-Century Literature 51:3 (December 1996)
