Selected Poetry

by Thomas Hardy

Book Overview

Thomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of much of his finest verse and the universality of his subject matter: birth, childhood, love, marriage, age, and death. Those elegies inspired by the death of his first wife Emma are some of his best, and are well represented in this new selection of his verse. Prepared by Samuel Hynes, the editor of the definitive Oxford English...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199538506
• ISBN13: 9780199538508
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.6"