The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Wordsworth Poetry Library) - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853264024 ISBN 13: 9781853264023

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1994

Synopsis

This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury.

Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina and a consistent individuality of style and vision made him a survivor, immune to literary fashion.

At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did, even in his own lifetime. He is now recognised not only as a great poet, but as one who is widely loved. He speaks with directness, humanity and humour to scholarly or ordinary readers alike.

About this title

Synopsis

This work comprises a collection of the poetic works of Thomas Hardy. Hardy's poetry spanned over 50 years from the last half of the 19th century to the period after World War I, and ranges from pessimistic works to those which were witty and fanciful.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1853264024
• ISBN 13: 9781853264023
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 960