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Wessex Poems and Other Verses
Thomas Hardy
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A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works.
A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works.
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Ere we met;
(Such can not be, but because
Some forget
Let me feign it)—none would notice
That where she I know by rote is
Spread a strange and withering change,
Like a drying of the wells
Where she dwells.
To feel I might have kissed -
Loved as true -
Otherwhere, nor Mine have missed
My life through.
Had I never wandered near her,
Is a smart severe—severer
In the thought that she is nought,
Even as I, beyond the dells
Where she dwells.
And Devotion droops her glance
To recall
What bond-servants of Chance
We are all.
I but found her in that, going
On my errant path unknowing,
I did not out-skirt the spot
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Community Reviews
A great selection of poems that initially confounded Hardy’s fans. The range of quality is vast, of style and topic almost as much. My favourites were To A Lady, Thoughts Of Phena and The Slow Nature, although there were loads of others almost as striking.
(I have this in a complete collection of Ha
I thought this book was really fascinating… so much so that I’m writing a whole research paper on it
the two men was my fave i think
This volume proved to be the smallest of Hardy’s eight volumes of poetry. It contained just fifty-one poems, many of them being sonnets.
The inflexible, sinewy style of these poems makes a break with tradition; and this break is as startling as the fundamental modernity of their scientific outlook.
At the preface of Wessex Poems, Thomas Hardy leaves an apology accounting for his use of "ancient and legitimate words of the district." Hardy insists on his use of such words necessary in scenarios wherein the words are "the most natural, nearest and often only expression of a thought." Hardy's ins
Many reviewers were put off when Thomas Hardy published this, his first collection of poetry, late in 1898 and after swearing off fiction. If "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" and "Jude the Obscure" offended them, "Wessex Poems" confused them - its style and diction seemed clumsy, and its themes did nothi
Very good collection of poetry - I enjoyed many poems in this collection but I did have four favourites these were: The Burghers, Her Death and After, The Casterbridge Captains and Thoughts of Phena. I would highly recommend this poetry collection.