Selected Poems

by Hardy, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780486287539
• ISBN10: 048628753X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-12-16
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Treasury of 70 poems remarkable for lyricism, subtlety, deep emotion and intense perception expressed with a unique diction and imaginative power. "The Darkling Thrush," "Hap," "The Ruined Maid," "The Convergence of the Twain," "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?," "I Look into My Glass" and many more.

Author Biography

Tragedy haunts the works of Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), whose fiction abounds in star-crossed lovers and other characters thwarted by fate or their own shortcomings. Hardy's outspoken criticism of Victorian society excited such profound controversy that the author abandoned fiction and in the 20th century published only poetry.

Table of Contents

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses
Hap
A Confession to a Friend in Trouble
Neutral Tones
Her Initials
San Sebastian
The Burghers
Her Death and After
Her Immortality
Friends Beyond
Nature's Questioning
I Look into My Glass
From Poems of the Past and the Present
The Going of the Battery
Drummer Hodge
The Souls of the Slain
Rome: The Vatican: Sala delle Muse
A Commonplace Day
Doom and She
The Subalterns
His Immortality
An August Midnight
The Darkling Thrush
A Wasted Illness
A Man
The Levelled Churchyard
The Ruined Maid
In Tenebris I
In Tenebris II
In Tenebris III
Tess's Lament
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses
Bereft
Shut Out That Moon
The Night of the Dance
Julie-Jane
A Church Romance
The Rambler
A Wet Night
God's Education
The Man He Killed
An uncollected poem
The Calf
From Satires of Circumstance
Channel Firing
The Convergence of the Twain
Beyond the Last Lamp
The Face at the Casement
"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"
The Going
I Found Her Out there
The Haunter
The Voice
At Castle Boterel
The Phantom Horsewoman
The Moth-Signal
The Death of Regret
Exeunt Omnes
From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Versus
We Sat at the Window
Afternoon Service at Mellstock
To My Father's Violin
The Pedigree
The Oxen
Transformations
Great Things
Overlooking the River Stour
During Wind and Rain
Who's in the Next Room?
The Masked Face
The Clock of the Years
The Shadow on the Stone
An Upbraiding
In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
Afterwards