Thomas Hardy
1840–1928
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet from Dorset, the “Wessex” of his fiction. After the hostile reception of Jude the Obscure (1895) he gave up the novel and devoted himself to poetry, publishing eight collections.
His poems are often grave and ironic, concerned with time, chance and loss; the elegies for his first wife Emma, “Poems of 1912–13”, are among the finest in English. “The Darkling Thrush”, “Channel Firing”, “The Convergence of the Twain” and “Drummer Hodge” are frequently anthologised.
Poems (8)
- In the Moonlight“o lonely workman, standing there
- She Hears the StormThere was a time in former years—
- The Darkling ThrushI leant upon a coppice gate
- The Darkling ThrushI leant upon a coppice gate
- The GoingWhy did you give no hint that night
- The Man He Killed“had he and I but met
- The OxenChristmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
- The VoiceWoman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,
