Author: Hardy, Thomas
Poetry by individual poets
Published on 30 March 1995 by Everyman (Everyman's Library) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Everyman's Library POCKET POETS' series.
Hardback | 256 pages
167 x 109 x 19 | 230g
Distringuished as both a great novelist and a great poet. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) had a writing career which spanned more than sixty years, concentrating first on prose and then, after publishing his last novel in 1895, on verse. A master of the short lyric and the vivid narrative, Hardy is pre-eminently the poet of remembrance and tender regret for lost happiness; but he is also an ironist whose exquisite descriptions of rural life are the setting for bitingly sharp observations of human frailty.