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Wessex Poems and Other Verses

by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy was fifty-eight and famous as a novelist when he brought out his first book of verse in 1898, having quit fiction after the abuse heaped on Jude the Obscure. The poems gathered here were written across three decades, some reaching back to the 1860s, and Hardy drew the thirty odd illustrations himself. The subjects are the ones his novels kept circling: chance, a universe that is not listening, love that has cooled into something colder. "Hap" and "Neutral Tones" sit alongside ballads of the Wessex countryside and its dialect. Critics were unsure what to make of a novelist turning poet at that age. He kept at it for another thirty years and won the argument.

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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.

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First published
1898
Reading time
About 70 minutes
Pages
153
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
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