Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The poems in this collection range widely and show Hardy's comfort in a variety of forms and styles. At the beginning of the book are poems that are anti-war poems. These poems are startlingly modern in tone and focus on the damage that war does even to the survivors. The mid-section is dominated by poems that would be familiar to anyone who has read Hardy's Wessex novels. These poems are full of lost loves, barren landscapes, and colorful characters. The volume closes with translations and rephrasings of poems from a variety of authors. I recommend the volume to anyone interested in Hardy.
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