{"product_id":"2026100012105-secondhand-the-new-wessex-selection-of-thomas-hardys-poetry","title":"The New Wessex Selection Of Thomas Hardy's Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew poets have captured the tension between human longing and the indifferent march of time with the precision and aching beauty of Thomas Hardy, and The New Wessex Selection of Thomas Hardy's Poetry presents the finest distillation of his vast poetic output for both devoted readers and those discovering his verse for the first time. This carefully curated anthology chronicles Hardy's preoccupations with love and loss, mortality, nature, and the rural landscapes of his beloved Wessex — the fictionalised Dorset countryside that served as the imaginative heartland of his entire literary career. From the haunting elegies of the Emma poems, written after his first wife's death, to meditative observations on a world in flux, the selection illustrates the full emotional and intellectual range of a writer who turned to poetry as his primary medium after abandoning the novel.\n\nHardy's verse is deceptively plain in its diction yet devastatingly precise in its emotional charge, a quality that places him in a singular position bridging Victorian and Modernist sensibilities, and which earned him the admiration of poets as varied as Philip Larkin and Ezra Pound. His work argues, quietly but insistently, that ordinary lives and ordinary sorrows are the proper subjects of great art. This edition, part of the celebrated New Wessex series, presents his poetry with authority and care — leaving the reader to wonder how one man could render the weight of a whole world in so few, perfectly chosen words.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51070624039131,"sku":"2026100012105-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/098ef801-6ea0-40d6-85ea-63a0b3345db0.png?v=1794188179","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012105-secondhand-the-new-wessex-selection-of-thomas-hardys-poetry","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}