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His verse touches all the common themes of human existence: birth, childhood, love, marriage, ageing, death. If Hardy's age brings anything to them, it is an old man's ironic and elegiac sense that in life hopes are likely to be defeated and losses sustained, and that the world was not designed for human happiness.
This collection is prepared by Samuel Hynes, editor of the Oxford English Texts edition of The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, and selected from the Oxford Authors critical edition. The introduction and notes illuminate Hardy's central place in the tradition of English poetry.
- Author/s Hardy, Thomas
- ISBN13 9780192834911
- ISBN10 0192834916
Selected poetry
- Author Thomas Hardy
- Publisher OXFORD U.P.
- ISBN 9780192834911
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