num_pages: 128
description: FIRST EDITION. 1985 Select Editions oblong hardcover, British import. Thomas Hardy. “The Darkling Thrush” is a poem by the English poet and novelist Thomas Hardy. The poem describes a desolate world, which the poem’s speaker takes as cause for despair and hopelessness. However, a bird (the “thrush”) bursts onto the scene, singing a beautiful and hopeful song—so hopeful that the speaker wonders whether the bird knows something that the speaker doesn’t. -
language: English
title: The Darkling Thrush and other Poems by Thomas Hardy
titlecomplete: The Darkling Thrush and other Poems by Thomas Hardy
characters: Thomas Hardy
genres: 20th Century, Classics, Poetry Plays, Poetry
ratings_count: 117
places: Dorset, England
publisher: Viking