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    Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)
    Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)
    Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)
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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Wessex Poems and Other Verses’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy’.

    Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Hardy includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    * The complete unabridged text of ‘Wessex Poems and Other Verses’
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    LanguageEnglish
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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781786568496
    Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)
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    Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.

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      Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy (Illustrated) - Thomas Hardy

      The Complete Works of

      THOMAS HARDY

      VOLUME 23 OF 33

      Wessex Poems and Other Verses

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2014

      Version 8

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Wessex Poems and Other Verses’

      Thomas Hardy: Parts Edition (in 33 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 849 6

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      Thomas Hardy: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 23 of the Delphi Classics edition of Thomas Hardy in 33 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Wessex Poems and Other Verses from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Thomas Hardy, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Thomas Hardy or the Complete Works of Thomas Hardy in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      THOMAS HARDY

      IN 33 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Novels

      1, The Poor Man and the Lady

      2, An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress

      3, Desperate Remedies

      4, Under the Greenwood Tree

      5, A Pair of Blue Eyes

      6, Far from the Madding Crowd

      7, The Hand of Ethelberta

      8, The Return of the Native

      9, The Trumpet-Major

      10, A Laodicean

      11, Two on a Tower

      12, The Mayor of Casterbridge

      13, The Woodlanders

      14, Tess of the D’urbervilles

      15, The Well-Beloved

      16, Jude the Obscure

      The Short Story Collections

      17, Wessex Tales

      18, Life’s Little Ironies

      19, A Group of Noble Dames

      The Short Stories

      20, The Complete Short Stories

      The Verse Dramas

      21, The Dynasts

      22, Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall

      The Poetry Collections

      23, Wessex Poems and Other Verses

      24, Poems of the Past and the Present

      25, Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses

      26, Satires of Circumstance

      27, Moments of VIsion and Miscellaneous Verses

      28, Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses

      29, Human Shows Far Phantasies Songs, and Trifles

      30, Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres

      The Criticism

      31, The Criticism

      The Biographies

      32, The Early Life of Thomas Hardy by Florence Hardy

      33, The Later Years of Thomas Hardy by Florence Hardy

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      Wessex Poems and Other Verses

      Wessex Poems and Other Verses is a collection of verses containing fifty-one poems, first published in 1898 by Harper: New York. In the Preface to the work Hardy explains that only four pieces of verse included in the collection had ever been published before and that many of the poems were written many years ago. Hardy emphasises that all the verses ‘are in a large degree dramatic or personative in conception’. One of the writer’s most famous poems is ‘Neutral Tones’, which bears the date 1867, although it may have been written later. It focuses on the death of a romantic relationship: the coldness, the greyness, the hopelessness and bitterness that accompany the demise of love. It portrays the relationship as a ‘winter’s day’ where the ‘sun was white’ and colour, life and vitality has been bleached out of existence where leaves ‘had fallen from an ash, and were gray’. The misery and bitterness of the speaker comes through in the following stanzas as ‘words play between us to and fro/On which lost the more by our love’ and they learn ‘keen lessons that love deceives’ which will forever be associated with this day in form of ‘Your face, and the God-curst sun’ before the poem ends by recalling the imagery at the beginning.

      Hardy’s poems contain the same melancholy and sense of powerlessness that is present in his later novels and are set in the remote and unforgiving landscape and wilds of Dorset. Hardy employed a range of forms, from the ballad to the sixteen line sonnet and infuses some of the verses with humour and irony, preventing the work from becoming relentlessly gloomy.

      The first edition

      CONTENTS

      THE TEMPORARY THE ALL

      AMABEL

      HAP

      IN VISION I ROAMED TO -

      AT A BRIDAL TO -

      POSTPONEMENT

      A CONFESSION TO A FRIEND IN TROUBLE

      NEUTRAL TONES

      SHE AT HIS FUNERAL

      HER INITIALS

      HER DILEMMA (IN — - CHURCH)

      REVULSION

      SHE, TO HIM — I

      SHE, TO HIM — II

      SHE, TO HIM — III

      SHE, TO HIM — IV

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