THOMAS HARDY: SELECTED POEMS A selection of Thomas Hardy’s finest poems. Thomas Hardy’s poetry lies at the core of his artistic achievement. Or he would like to think so. It is the novels, in particular Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Far From the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders and The Return of the Native that have made Hardy popular with readers and critics. For Hardy, though, the poetry is at the heart of his artistic life. It contains his deepest emotions, his thoughts on the most intimate matters. The poetry is, as Robert Graves said, a ‘spiritual autobiography’. Thomas Hardy’s own biography, The Life of Thomas Hardy, was somewhat manufactured for the critics. The ‘private’ Hardy, the inner ‘Thomas Hardy’, one might say, is to be found in the poetry. Thomas Hardy’s poetry is sensual, physical, concise, lyrical, and personal. It is seemingly ‘plain’ and unadorned, yet it is full of an arcane vocabulary...

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