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8 de mar. de 2016 · Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is acclaimed worldwide as one of the best Victorian novelists, but his poetry is often eclipsed by his achievement in the realm of fiction. Still, of the hundreds of poems that comprise Hardy’s Collected Poems, there are a few favourites that are much-loved and widely anthologised. Here’s our pick of the ...
Poems by Thomas Hardy. Here you can download copies of all of Hardy's 947 poems. Some of Hardy's best known poetry: 001 Domicilium 24 kb. 119 The Darkling Thrush 24.5 kb. 248 The Convergence of the Twain 22 kb. 261 Wessex Heights 23 kb.
Incredibly influential for poets such as Robert Frost , W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and Donald Hall, Hardy forged a modern style that nonetheless hewed closely to poetic convention and tradition. Innovative in his use of stanza and voice, Hardy’s poetry, like his fiction, is characterized by a pervasive fatalism.
And There Was a Great Calm. By Thomas Hardy. (On the Signing of the Armistice, 11 Nov. 1918) I. There had been years of Passion—scorching, cold, And much Despair, and Anger heaving high, Care whitely watching, Sorrows manifold, Among the young, among the weak and old,
The Voice. By Thomas Hardy. Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were. When you had changed from the one who was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair. Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then, Standing as when I drew near to the town.
The Convergence of the Twain. By Thomas Hardy. (Lines on the loss of the "Titanic") I. In a solitude of the sea. Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. II. Steel chambers, late the pyres.
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840, the son of a stonemason. He trained and practised as an architect, but, as soon as he could, earned his living by writing the novels which made him famous. Then, after Jude the Obscure was met with hostility, he abandoned fiction and devoted himself full time to writing what he really wanted to write: narrative, dramatic and lyric poetry.
