The Poems Of Thomas Hardy

Author: Thomas Hardy; Claire Tomalin (Editor)

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9780140424713
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : July 2007
  • : 181mm X 111mm X 12mm
  • : United Kingdom
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Description

A new selection of Hardy's love poems. Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet.

Author description

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.