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Decadents, Symbolists, Anti-Decadents
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A facsimile reprint in the Decadents.... series, edited by R.K.R.Thornton ISBN 1 85477 145 0 200 x 127 mm 250 pages |
THOMAS HARDY Wessex Poems 1898 Hardy’s first book of verse was published comparatively late in his life, well after the great novels of the early 1890s and the furore caused by the publication of Jude the Obscure in 1895. But Hardy thought of himself primarily as a poet, and he turned to poetry to be more truly himself, escaping from the constraints of novel-writing and the need to propitiate his readers. It was to take time for his change of direction to be accepted by his public, and Wessex Poems was not a success. Now however it has the interest of foreshadowing the directions his later verse was to take, and the curiosity of the illustrations he added to the book. £35 $55
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