The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892–1928

Part I. Tess, Jude, and the End of Prose: 1. The reception of the book, 1892; 2. Visits and intermittent writing, 1893; 3. Another novel finished, mutilated, and restored, 1894–5; 4. More on Jude, and issue of The Well-Beloved, 1896–7; Part II. Verse, to the End of The Dynasts: 5. Collecting old poems and making new, 1897–8; 6. Wessex Poems and others, 1899–1900; 7. Poems of the Past and Present, and others, 1901–3; 8. Part first of The Dynasts, 1904–5; 9. The remainder of The Dynasts, 1906–8; Part III. Time's Laughingstocks, Satires of Circumstance, and Moments of Vision: 10. Deaths of Swinburne and Meredith, 1908–9; 11. The freedom of the borough, 1910; 12. Bereavement, 1911–12; 13. Revisitings, second marriage, and war writings, 1913–14; 14. War efforts, deaths of relatives, and Moments of Vision, 1915–17; Part IV. Life's Decline: 15. Reflections on poetry, 1918; 16. Poetical questions: and Mellstock club-room, 1918–19; 17. The Dynasts at Oxford; hon. degree; a deputation; a controversy, 1920; 18. Some farewells, 1921–5; 19. The last scene; Appendix; Index.