Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy - ISBN: 9780140433418
Paperback
Discover Hardy’s poetry: familiar favorites and hidden gems await.

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    25 November 1993

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Summary

Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction for a living. This generous selection of nearly two hundred poems includes such familiar pieces as “During Wind and Rain,” “Channel Firing,” “Afterwards,” “The Darkling Thrush,” and “The Oxen,” but it will also acquaint readers with many less-celebrated works, among them “To Lizbie Browne,” “After the Last Breath,” “My Spirit Will Not Haunt the Mound,” “The Haunter,…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140433418
ISBN-10:0140433414
Author:Thomas Hardy, Harry Thomas
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Edition:1st
Release Date:25 November 1993
Weight:204g
Dimensions:199mm x 130mm x 15mm
Series:Penguin Classics
About The Author

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840. He wrote novels and poetry, much of which is set in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex. His novels include Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), The Return of the Native (1878), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the D’Urbervilles(1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895). He published his first volume of poetry, Wessex Poems, in 1898 and continued to publish collections of poems until his death on 11 January 1928.

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