Thomas Hardy, The Poetry Of: "Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
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The Poetry Of Thomas Hardy – An Introduction. Many giants of Literature originate from the shores of these emerald isles; Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, The Brontes and Austen to which most people would willingly add the name Thomas Hardy. Far From The Madding Crowd, Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, The Mayor Of Casterbridge are but three of his literary masterpieces. But let us go further and add to his canon his Poems. Hardy himself thought he was a poet who wrote novels purely for the money. Indeed his poems were not published until he was in his fifties after his major novels were published and his reputation set. Today his poetry is more rightly regarded in its own right. Many of these poems are also available as an audiobook read for you by James Taylor, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley, Tim Graham and Ghizela Rowe and available at iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Thomas Hardy, The Poetry Of - Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, A Poet In Verse
Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at poets who at first thought summon other crafts to mind.
Many giants of Literature originate from the shores of these emerald isles; Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, The Brontes and Austen to which most people would willingly add the name Thomas Hardy. ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’,’ Tess Of The D’Urbervilles’, ‘The Mayor Of Casterbridge’ are but three of his literary masterpieces. But let us go further and add to his canon his Poems. Hardy himself thought he was a poet who wrote novels purely for the money. Indeed his poems were not published until he was in his fifties after his major novels were published and his reputation set. Today his poetry is more rightly regarded in its own right.
Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Among the readers are James Taylor, Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe
Index Of Poems
A Meeting With Despair
The Voice
A Thunderstorm In Town
God's Funeral
My Spirit Will Not Haunt The Mound
In The Moonlight
The Man He Killed
An August Midnight
The Dead Man Walking
Lines On The Loss Of The Titanic
Rome: The Vatican - Sala Delle Muse
Middle-Age Enthusiasms
Unknowing
In Vision I Roamed
I Have Lived With Shades
Memory And I
A Man (In Memory of H. of M.)
Mute Opinion
On An Invitation To The United States
The Tenant-For-Life
Afterwards
During Wind And Rain
The Seasons of Her Year
Heredity
He Never Expected Much
I Said To Love
I Look Into My Glass
The Subalterns
She At His Funeral
The Church-Builder
Men Who March Away
She, To Him
To An Unborn Pauper Child
The To-Be-Forgotten
In A Museum
A Confession To A Friend In Trouble
Shelley's Skylark (The neighbourhood of Leghorn: March)
A Meeting With Despair
As evening shaped I found me on a moor
Which sight could scarce sustain:
The black lean land, of featureless contour,
Was like a tract in pain.
This scene, like my own life,
I said, "is one
Where many glooms abide;
Toned by its fortune to a deadly dun
Lightless on every side.
I glanced aloft and halted, pleasure-caught
To see