Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy de Thomas Hardy

Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2005

This wonderful volume contains the complete poetical works of Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), was one of England's greatest novelists during the nineteenth century, and one of its most esteemed poets of the twentieth. He was a poet by choice and a novelist by necessity, and this destination is evident in the beautiful and masterfully-composed poetry contained within these pages. This collection is highly recommended for all lovers of poetry, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Hardy's seminal work. The poems include: "After the Visit", "To Meet, or Otherwise", "The Difference", "In The Departure Platform", "In a Cathedral City", "I Say I'll Seek Her", "Song of Hope", "Before and After Summer", "First Sight of her and After", and many more. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

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Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances, and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Hardy's Wessex eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. Two of his novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, were listed in the top 50 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.