Quantity:

More Buying Choices

52 used & new from �0.01

Have one to sell? Sell yours here

Share your own customer images

Search inside this book

Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) (Paperback)

by Thomas Hardy (Author) "CHANGE and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, ..." (more)

5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

RRP:	�3.99
Price:	�3.77 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save:	�0.22 (6%)
	o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Want guaranteed delivery by Thursday, November 12? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details

21 new from �1.65 31 used from �0.01

Other Editions:	RRP:	Our Price:	Other Offers:
Hardcover	�28.95	�28.95	14 used & new from �28.40
Paperback	�21.99	�21.99	16 used & new from �21.76

Frequently Bought Together

Price For All Three: �11.31

Show availability and shipping details

This item: Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by Thomas Hardy
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by W.B. Yeats
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
Complete Poems of John Keats (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by John Keats
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Nightwood

by Djuna Barnes

3.2 out of 5 stars (6) �4.99

The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)

by W.B. Yeats

4.7 out of 5 stars (9) �3.77

Complete Poems of John Keats (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)

by John Keats

4.7 out of 5 stars (3) �3.77

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader

by Prof David Lodge

5.0 out of 5 stars (1) �26.49

To the North

by Elizabeth Bowen

�9.12

› Explore similar items

Product details

Paperback: 960 pages
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd; New edition edition (26 May 1994)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1853264024
ISBN-13: 978-1853264023
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 5.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 129,833 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina and a consistent individuality of style and vision made him a survivor, immune to literary fashion. At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did, even in his own lifetime. He is now recognised not only as a great poet, but as one who is widely loved. He speaks with directness, humanity and humour to scholarly or ordinary readers alike.

Inside This Book (Learn More)

First Sentence
CHANGE and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, Read the first page

Explore More
Concordance

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

(What's this?)

Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.

thomas hardy(1)

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

	81% buy the item featured on this page: Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) 5.0 out of 5 stars (3) �3.77
	6% buy Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems 5.0 out of 5 stars (5) �12.29
	5% buy Thomas Hardy: Everyman Poetry 5.0 out of 5 stars (1) �2.33
	4% buy Thomas Hardy, Selected Poems: York Notes Advanced 4.4 out of 5 stars (5) �4.17

Explore similar items

Customer Reviews

3 Reviews

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

Average Customer Review

5.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)

Share your thoughts with other customers:

Create your own review

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hardy was a poetic genius, 12 May 2003

By	William Finch (Redhill, Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

Hardy is the most under rated poet that Britain ever produced.

Better known for his novels, Hardy always considered himself a poet first and foremost. And after the "un christian" reception that "Jude the Obscure" received, he decided to devote himself fully to poetry, his first love.

Much of his work relates to rural themes, and is wonderful in it's observation of both wildlife, and human nature. And no writer born before or since has possessed an eye for irony that could come near matching Hardy's.

I can't recommend Hardy's poems highly enough. I discovered them many years ago as a sixth form student who had began to doubt the wisdom of my parents and teachers in leading me down the road to Christianity. And when I discovered that Hardy had already been down the same road and expressed all of the same doubts, felt all of the same guilt etc. etc., and that he could express it in such wonderful poetry - I was reassured, amazed, absolved and made to feel a lot better about myself.

No poetry has ever meant so much to me - and almost certainly never will.

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Strange Eyed Constellations, 8 Sep 2003

By	J. J. O'neill "rotgut" (Warrington UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Famously, Hardy gave up writing novels after the poor reception given to "Jude the Obscure". He concentrated instead on poetry, presumably muttering "Right!This'll show 'em!", or something similar, through his gritted teeth.

In my opinion, while admitting that, generally speaking, no one ever puts up a statue to a critic, posterity has something to thank the reviewers of "Jude" for. Instead of having yet more of Hardy's static and uninvolving prose describing the moral and physical problems of the rural Wessex townships, kind of a superior "Archers" without the silly voices, we have more of his excellent and varied poetry.

Some of the poems, particularly the war poems like "Drummer Hodge", have justly remained well known, others, such as "At Casterbridge Fair" may not be so familiar, but are equally fine. My own favourite is "Wessex Heights" a wry, sad piece that somehow manages not to be at all depressing.

Taken as a whole, the most striking thing about the poetry here is, perhaps, its modernity. The author's world weary, stoical recognition of the passage of time echoes loudly in our post-religious Twenty First Century.

Hardy's grasp of a dizzying number of poetic forms is impressive.He is (for some reason) regarded as being in the forefront of English novelists, these complete poetic works show he has, most unusually, the range and depth to be considered in the first rank of English poets too.

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thomas Hardy's Collected Poems, 8 Jun 2009

By	Bert G. Hornback (New Orleans, Louisiana) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Thomas Hardy's poems are a treasure. Every time I read through the 950 poems in the "Collected Poems" I discover another half-dozen that I have somehow managed not to appreciate before. His "Collected Poems" is a must for any library; and the Wordsworth Classics edition is a good one to own.

Wordsworth Classics editions are generally very good--and reliable: their editors don't interfere with their authors' works! (If you read Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge" in a new Penguin edition, you won't read most of the penultimate chapter; the scholarly editor has used an edition, neither the first that Hardy published nor the last that Hardy corrected, which excludes two-thirds--2,656 words--of that chapter.)

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review

› See all 3 customer reviews...

.jsOffDisplayBlock { display: block; } .jsOffDisplayInline { display: inline; } .jsOffVisibility { visibility: visible; } .jsOnDisplayBlock { display: none; } .jsOnDisplayNoneBlock { display: block; } .jsOnDisplayNoneInline { display: inline; } .jsOnDisplayInline { display: none; } .jsOnVisibility { visibility: hidden; } .jqOnDisplayBlock { display: none; } .jqOnDisplayInline { display: none; } .jqOnVisibility { visibility: hidden; } .jqOnDisplayNoneBlock { display: block; } .jqOnDisplayNoneInline { display: inline; }