1. See Michael Thorpe, The Poetry of Edmund Blunden (Chatham: Bridge Books, 1971), 11.
2. Edmund Blunden, Thomas Hardy (Macmillan: London, 1941), 44.
3. See Havelock Ellis (1883) and Coventry Patmore (1887) in Thomas Hardy: the Critical Heritage, ed. R.G. Cox (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970), 120, 148
4. Andrew Enstice, Thomas Hardy: Landscapes of the Mind (London: Macmillan, 1979), x, 1.
5. See Millgate’s Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist (London: The Bodley Head, 1971), 127–8.