The Complete Poems by Thomas Hardy
A vast body of verse traces the lives, landscapes and inner conflicts of rural England with unsparing clarity and elegiac feeling, moving from intimate lyrics of love and loss to sardonic, philosophical meditations on fate, time and decay; its poems blend traditional forms and dramatic monologues with vivid nature imagery and sharp social observation, recording the pains of unrequited desire, bereavement and the tensions between human longing and indifferent forces, while also preserving the cadences and particulars of country life amid the encroachments of modernity.
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- 1979
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