Thomas Hardy

Selected from thirty years of his poetry, this annotated collection of verse explores the various forms Hardy found interesting, as well the philosophical scope of his work, and includes moving elegies of regret and love lyrics written for his dead wife. Reprint.

Selected Poems

Harry Thomas

This is a selection of Hardy's poetry, within the Penguin Classics series, with notes on the poems, and appendices which contain Hardy's preface to his edition of the poetry of William Barnes and his apology from Late Lyrics and Earlier .

Thomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of much of his finest verse and the universality of his subject matter: birth, childhood, love, marriage, age, and death. Those elegies inspired by the death of his first wife Emma are some of his best, and are well represented in this new selection of his verse. Prepared by Samuel Hynes, the editor of the definitive Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Thomas Hardy, this volume includes a selection of Hardy's poetry that spans his life, verses that influenced later poets as diverse as Robert Graves and Philip Larkin, Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden.

Ryan Haber

With unfailing honesty and lyrical writing, Thomas Hardy captured his heroes' intimate relationship with the natural and social environment. Here are three of his finest works, uncut. "Tess of the Durbervilles" tells the tragic tale of a poor girl's coming of age and traumatic relationships with two men. Michael Henchard, in "The Mayor of Casterbridge," reaches the pinnacles of power-only to lose everything. Set in Hardy's beloved Wessex, "Far From the Madding Crowd" centers on Bathsheba Everdene and the men who love her.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles ; The Mayor of Casterbridge ; Far from the Madding Crowd

Ioana Kardos

Seth Kalback

Rowan Myers

Thomas Hardy abandoned the novel form at the turn of the century, probably after public reaction to Jude the Obscure, but continued to write verse displaying a wide variety of metrical styles and stanza forms and a broad scope of tone and attitude. This definitive volume contains selections from his numerous collections published between 1898 and 1928. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Hardy: Selected Poems

Luciana Ascenzo

A compilation of the nineteenth-century English writer's poems features previously uncollected works including epigraphs, Domicilium, and songs from The Dynasts.

Selected Poems

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