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Poems of the Past and the Present
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This is Thomas Hardy's second poetry collection, gathering lyrics and meditations on nature, time, love, and mortality, together with poems on the Boer War and his European travels. It suits readers of Victorian and early modern English poetry and students of Hardy's work.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
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