Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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by Thomas Hardy

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Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses gathers poems that the opening apology describes as a mixture of recent and older writing. The apology says that some unusually early poems had been overlooked when previous collections were gathered, and that dates for some poems cannot be discovered. The discussion of poetry says that divergences between writer and reader may sometimes arise from a superficial aspect alone, with the same thing seen at different angles.

A poem has Sir Nameless summon carvers to make an alabaster figure stretching more than seven feet, furnished with shield, crest, and casque. The poem carries the effigy through three hundred years to church restoration, when the figure is placed beneath seats for schoolchildren whose feet wear away its name and nose.

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet whose fiction, set in a half-imagined Wessex, probed fate, class, and the constraints of Victorian society. His major novels are cornerstones of English literature.