# Hardy Poems

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- Authors: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-hardy)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-717-8
- Pages: 256
- Published: 1995-03-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## 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.