Thomas Hardy's Wessex

Thomas Hardy built a fictional county and filled it with characters crushed by chance and convention — the last great Victorian novelist and a major modern poet.

Fate, and the English countryside

In this collection

• The Dead Man Walking
• The Last Time
• The Choirmaster's Burial
• The Church-Builder
• The Country Wedding
• The Man who Forgot
• In a Cathedral City
• Going and Staying
• Had you Wept
• The Cheval-Glass
• The Youth who Carried a Light
• Sapphic Fragment
• The Blinded Bird
• Birds at Winter Nightfall (Triolet)
• I Looked up from my Writing
• Looking Across
• Places
• The Walk
• The Five Students
• Looking at a Picture on an Anniversary
• Wessex Heights
• The Homecoming
• On the Doorstep
• Penance
• Overlooking the River Stour
• "How Great My Grief" (Triolet)
• Autumn in King's Hintock Park
• Faintheart in a Railway Train
• A Backward Spring
• On the Death-Bed
• The Sunshade
• A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
• The Pedigree
• A Plaint to Man
• The Child and the Sage
• At an Inn
• Last Words to a Dumb Friend
• Just the Same
• An Old Likeness
• The Stranger's Song

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