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Mar 8, 2016 · Dr Oliver Tearle selects some of the best Thomas Hardy poems. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is acclaimed worldwide as one of the best Victorian novelists, but his poetry is often eclipsed by his achievement in the realm of fiction.
Poems by Thomas Hardy. Here you can download copies of all of Hardy's 947 poems. Some of Hardy's best known poetry: 001 Domicilium 24 kb. 119 The Darkling Thrush 24.5 kb. 248 The Convergence of the Twain 22 kb. 261 Wessex Heights 23 kb.
Incredibly prolific, Hardy wrote fourteen novels, three volumes of short stories, and several poems between the years 1871 and 1897. Hardy’s great novels, including Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895), were all published during this period.
The Darkling Thrush. ‘The Darkling Thrush’ by Thomas Hardy envisions a desolate winter landscape as metaphor for the decline of human civilization — where a solitary but joyous birdsong is its only hopeful feature.
One of the most renowned poets and novelists in English literary history, Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in the English village of Higher Bockhampton in the county of Dorset. He died in 1928 at Max Gate, a house he built for himself and his...
The Darkling Thrush. By Thomas Hardy. I leant upon a coppice gate. When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate. The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky. Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh.
After her death, Hardy wrote an intense series of poems remembering the happiness of the early days and expressing his loss, grief and remorse. There is no better expression of the commonplace human paradox that we only really appreciate someone when we have lost them.
