Dimensions
129 x 197 x 23mm
Hardy explored in verse the themes of his great novels and his reactions to major public events as well as far more intimate thoughts and doubts.
Chilling ballads display his intense sympathy for outcasts and desperate lovers; poignant or tenderly comic lyrics about his childhood home, a blinded bird, snow in the suburbs and even the death of a cat register his acute responses to nature. "One can read him for years and years", wrote Philip Larkin, whether his descriptions of disappointment in love, the blood-drenched fields of Waterloo, his grief for his wife Emma, "and still be surprised". This superb selection reveals him as one of the most vivid and versatile poets in English.
With introduction, notes, selected criticism, and chronology of Hardy's life and times.
