Publisher's Synopsis
A complete collection of Hardy's poetry, an output of over 900 poems, including his eight books of verse, all the uncollected poems, "Domicilium" and the songs from "The Dynasts".;Hardy was fifty-eight years old and had already established his reputation as a novelist when his first book of verse "Wessex Poems" was published. The creative force of these and subsequent poems was such that he is now regarded as a poet of major stature as well as one of the century's finest novelists.
