Late Lyrics And Earlier, With Many Other Verses - 9781636379500

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Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses is a collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1922. While covering a typical (for Hardy) range of subjects - such as mismatchings, grotesqueries, and ironic memories - the poems generally take a musical shape, often remembering the past in ballad format. Hardy prefaced the collection with a self-styled Apology, beginning prosaically by reporting some half of the poems included as recent, the remainder as old, but continuing with a broader defence of his poetic principles. Against charges of systematic pessimism, he maintained that his poetry was instead "really a series of fugitive impressions which I have never tried to co-ordinate". As if to protest further the charge of pessimism, Hardy opened the collection with the cheerfully lyrical 'Weathers', though he closed it with the self-searching meditation 'Surview'. Other notable poems paid tribute to the friend of his youth, Horace Moule, and to his second wife, Florence Dugdale; while others recalled once again Hardy's first wife Emma, perhaps representing a final coming-to-terms with the memory of their marriage. Many of the poems have been subsequently set to music, by a variety of different composers. (wikipedia.org)


  • | Author: Thomas Hardy
  • | Publisher: Bibliotech Press
  • | Publication Date: Sep 16, 2022
  • | Number of Pages: 156 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1636379508
  • | ISBN-13: 9781636379500
Author:
Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
Bibliotech Press
Publication Date:
Sep 16, 2022
Number of pages:
156 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1636379508
ISBN-13:
9781636379500