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This volume offers more than 50 poems, drawn from Hardy's work, to students studying English Literature at Advanced Level or as part of a college course. The chosen poems span from his early "Wessex Poems" across "Satires of Circumstance" and "Moments of Vision" to his later collections, "Human Shows" and "Winter Words". The selection contains some of Hardy's best love poetry and reflective lyrics, as well as his distinctive character vignettes. In style with other "Oxford Student Texts", this edition has a Notes section following on from the poems which gives detailed support on individual poems, with glosses and explanations of words and phrases and questions designed to encourage the student's own response. Another section provides a commentary and activities on key themes in Hardy's poetry and an examination of his poetic technique.
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) immortalized the site of his birth--Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester--in his writing. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At sixteen, Hardy was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, Hardy published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novels--Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure--he announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors. He was buried in Poet's Corner, in Westminster Abbey. It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy.
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