A01=Thomas Hardy
Author_Thomas Hardy
Category=DCF
classic poetry
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Far from the Madding Crowd
nature poetry
Poet to Poet
poetry series
Product details
- ISBN 9780571226733
- Weight: 115g
- Dimensions: 120 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber.
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom . . .
-The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was born in Dorset. He left school at sixteen to work as an apprentice for an architect who specialized in church restoration. He made his reputation as a novelist, and it wasn't until after the publication of his last novel, The Well-beloved, in 1897, that he dedicated himself to writing poetry.
