Published in 1922, when Hardy was past eighty, this collection mixes recent poems with older ones held back from earlier volumes. It opens with his combative Apology defending his so-called pessimism, then moves through pieces such as Weathers, Faintheart in a Railway Train and She Did Not Turn, many haunted by lost love, the dead and the Wessex countryside.
Essential for readers of Hardy’s poetry, showing the novelist still writing with freshness and grief late in life. Download the free EPUB.