Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Mezey, Robert; Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140436995 ISBN 13: 9780140436990

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1998

Synopsis

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, " "Old Furniture, " "A Procession of Dead Days, " "The Harbour Bridge, " "At a Country Fair, " "Last Love-Word, " "Waiting Both, " and "Proud Songsters." With an introduction and annotations by Robert Mezey, this new Penguin Classics edition will help readers to recognize Hardy as one of the greatest English poets of this century.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140436995
• ISBN 13: 9780140436990
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384