Wessex Poems and Other Verses
by Thomas Hardy
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A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. Wessex Poems was Hardy's first collection of poetry, published after he had turned away from novel writing, disillusioned by the savage reception Jude the Obscure had received. Its publication marked the start of an extraordinary new phase in Hardy's writing career: for...
Chapters (296)
- WESSEX POEMS AND OTHER VERSES
- PREFACE TO WESSEX POEMS
- CONTENTS
- THE TEMPORARY THE ALL
- AMABEL
- HAP
- “IN VISION I ROAMED” TO —
- AT A BRIDAL TO —
- POSTPONEMENT
- A CONFESSION TO A FRIEND IN TROUBLE
- NEUTRAL TONES
- SHE AT HIS FUNERAL
- HER INITIALS
- HER DILEMMA (IN — CHURCH)
- REVULSION
- SHE, TO HIM I
- SHE, TO HIM II
- SHE, TO HIM III
- SHE, TO HIM IV
- DITTY (E. L G.)
- THE SERGEANT’S SONG (1803)
- VALENCIENNES (1793)
- SAN SEBASTIAN (August 1813)
- THE STRANGER’S SONG
- THE BURGHERS (17–)
- LEIPZIG (1813)
- THE PEASANT’S CONFESSION
- THE ALARM (1803)
- HER DEATH AND AFTER
- THE DANCE AT THE PHŒNIX
- THE CASTERBRIDGE CAPTAINS (KHYBER PASS, 1842)
- A SIGN-SEEKER
- MY CICELY (17–)
- HER IMMORTALITY
- THE IVY-WIFE
- A MEETING WITH DESPAIR
- UNKNOWING
- FRIENDS BEYOND
- TO OUTER NATURE
- THOUGHTS OF PHENA AT NEWS OF HER DEATH
- MIDDLE-AGE ENTHUSIASMS To M. H.
- IN A WOOD See “THE WOODLANDERS”
- TO A LADY OFFENDED BY A BOOK OF THE WRITER’S
- TO AN ORPHAN CHILD A WHIMSEY
- NATURE’S QUESTIONING
- THE IMPERCIPIENT (AT A CATHEDRAL SERVICE)
- AT AN INN
- THE SLOW NATURE (AN INCIDENT OF FROOM VALLEY)
- IN A EWELEAZE NEAR WEATHERBURY
- ADDITIONS
- THE FIRE AT TRANTER SWEATLEY’S
- HEIRESS AND ARCHITECT For A. W. B.
- THE TWO MEN
- LINES
- “I LOOK INTO MY GLASS”
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