Wessex Poems and Other Verses

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Of the miscellaneous collection of verse that follows, only four pieces have been published, though many were written long ago, and other partly written. In some few cases the verses were turned into prose and printed as such, it having been unanticipated at that time that they might see the light. Whenever an ancient and legitimate word of the district, for which there was no equivalent in received English, suggested itself as the most natural, nearest, and often only expression of a thought, it has been made use of, on what seemed good grounds. p. viThe pieces are in a large degree dramatic or personative in conception; and this even where they are not obviously so. The dates attached to some of the poems do not apply to the rough sketches given in illustration, which have been recently made, and, as may be surmised, are inserted for personal and local reasons rather than for their intrinsic qualities. T. H.

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Harper's wrote that Wessex Poems and Other Verses represented ""the poetical works of Mr. Hardy during several years, and all deal with Wessex country life, the beauty of which is so successfully pictured in his prose works. There is, however, a certain added value of description to these poems over prose which might naturally be expected from an author whose great ability as a descriptive writer is combined with distinct and rare poetic sense."

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serie Penguin Clothbound Poetry - Thomas Hardy (Auteur) - Verschenen op 21/08/2017 bij Penguin Group

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Pages: 96, Edition: 01, Hardcover, Penguin Group