Selected Poems Open learning Because it defines human existence

Because it defines human existence

A double-flap on the last page creates a surprising ending

family and love

and his own story

written on pink parchment paper in her mother's beautiful handwriting

Selected Poems Open learning Because it defines human existenceA generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetry This selection of poems by Thomas Hardy (18401928), edited by David Bromwich, covers the range of Hardys extraordinary work: songs, ballads, and sonnets, dramatic monologues and elegies, along with poems that mark epochal events, such as the end of the Great War. This selection