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Millgate, Michael

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Works: 126 works in 404 publications in 3 languages and 18,751 library holdings
Roles: Editor, Honoree, Other, Author of introduction, Compiler
Classifications: ps3511.a86, 823.8
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Most widely held works by Michael Millgate
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28 editions published between and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,916 libraries worldwide
A comprehensive account of the author's life based upon many previously unknown materials.
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29 editions published between and 1989 in English and Spanish and held by 1,790 libraries worldwide
Faulkner's entire body of work is examined to reveal his perceptive characterization and tragic-comic vision.
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4 editions published between and 1980 in English and held by 1,404 libraries worldwide
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37 editions published between and 1972 in 3 languages and held by 1,234 libraries worldwide
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17 editions published between and 1994 in English and held by 1,114 libraries worldwide
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16 editions published between and 1967 in English and held by 1,078 libraries worldwide
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8 editions published between and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,043 libraries worldwide
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37 editions published between and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,036 libraries worldwide
The InteLex Past Masters English Letters database The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy contains the complete edition of Hardy's letters in seven volumes as published by the Clarendon Press.
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12 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 1,006 libraries worldwide
"Michael Millgate's biography of Thomas Hardy, great novelist and poet, was first published in 1982. Much new information about Hardy has since become available, often in volumes edited or co-edited by Millgate himself, and many established assumptions have been challenged and revolutionized by scholarly research. In this extensively revised, fully reconsidered, and considerably expanded new edition the world's leading Hardy scholar draws not only upon these new materials but upon an understanding of Hardy gained from long immersion in the study of his life and work. Many large and small aspects of Hardy's life are here freshly illuminated, including his family background, his fumbling self-education as a poet, his difficult relations with his first wife and hers with his family, his sexual infatuations, his secret collaborations with aspiring women writers, his clandestine composition of his own official biography, and the memory-invoking techniques by which he sustained his remarkable creativity into extreme old age. Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited will become the standard life of Hardy for a new generation."--BOOK JACKET.
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4 editions published in in English and held by 559 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 502 libraries worldwide
The testamentary acts of Michael Millgate's title are those strategies of self-protection and self-projection by which authors attempt in old age to enhance posterity's view of themselves and their work. The four figures examined in detail here--Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Henry James, and Thomas Hardy--sought to maintain posthumous control over their personal privacy and the integrity of their finally approved texts by, for example, destroying documents, writing autobiographies, revising their earlier works and supplying them with retrospective prefaces, and publishing so-called 'collected' editions that in fact omitted items they no longer wished to preserve. Such strategies, though widely practised by writers, may yield altogether unanticipated results, and this study also examines the difficult role of such literary executors as Pen Browning, Hallam Tennyson, and Florence Hardy, called upon to exercise a delegated, hence compromised, authority. A concluding chapter gives briefer consideration to the wills and wishes of many other literary figures, from Samuel Johnson to Walt Whitman to Philip Larkin, and argues that biographers, editors, and readers in general need to be more attentive to these authorial end-games--to the often disregarded final years of writers and to the aims and consequences of their explicit and implicit testamentary acts.
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2 editions published between and 1990 in English and held by 439 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published between and 1990 in English and held by 432 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 385 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 299 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 1996 in English and held by 261 libraries worldwide
It has been said that both Thomas Hardy's wives were livelier letter-writers than he was himself. They were certainly less discreet, especially on the subject of their marital grievances, with the result that Hardy's intensely private life and personality are uniquely illuminated in the letters of the two remarkable but very different women who knew him best. Inevitably overshadowed by their husband during their lifetimes, their distinctive voices - together with their particular concerns and their opinions on many other subjects beside their husband - now clearly sound throughout this meticulously edited and fully annotated selection of their letters.
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6 editions published between and 2009 in English and held by 238 libraries worldwide
A meticulously prepared and annotated edition of a previously unpublished and almost unknown Hardy notebook, one of the very few to have survived. Biographically significant because of its preservation of personal notes from old pocket-books subsequently destroyed, 'Poetical Matter' is a unique late working notebook devoted to verse. - ;Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' notebook, the last to be published from among the small group of notebooks not destroyed by Hardy himself or by his executors, has now been meticulously edited with full scholarly annotation. Through its inclusion of so many not.
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1 edition published in in English and held by 134 libraries worldwide
 
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Thomas Hardy, a biography
Alternative Names
Millgate, Michael, 1929-
Millgate, Michael Henry
Languages
English (390)
Undetermined (15)
Spanish (3)
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