num_pages: 249
description: 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.
language: English
title: Hardy: Poems
titlecomplete: Hardy: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
genres: 19th Century, Classics, Poetry, British Literature, Victorian
ratings_count: 93
publisher: Everyman's Library / Knopf