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5 days ago · We’ve noted before in this space that even among the not-inconsiderable demographic of novelist-poets, or poet-novelists, of the last hundred years or so, Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) is unusual. Although he was writing poems by the age of sixteen, his serious emergence as a poet, with the publication of Wessex Poems in 1898, occurred as a ...
2 days ago · Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry takes the reader on a journey that sets out with a consideration of the various arts humankind has created, and then focuses on the special art of poetry: what poetry is, what it does and must do in order to 'succeed' for whom it does what it does, and, in detail, how it goes about doing what it tries to do. T
5 days ago · Popular Poets. 1. Emily Dickinson (2414 poems) 2. Madison Julius Cawein (1231 poems) 3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1136 poems) 4. William Wordsworth (1016 poems) 5. Robert Burns (986 poems) 6. Edgar Albert Guest (945 poems) 7. Thomas Moore (849 poems) 8. Robert Service (831 poems)
5 days ago · Popular Poets. 1. Emily Dickinson (2414 poems) 2. Madison Julius Cawein (1231 poems) 3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1136 poems) 4. William Wordsworth (1016 poems) 5. Robert Burns (986 poems) 6. Edgar Albert Guest (945 poems) 7. Thomas Moore (849 poems) 8. Robert Service (831 poems)
5 days ago · The doing without me has had no play. In the minds of men when shadows scare; And now that I dwindle day by day. Beneath the deicide eyes of seers. In a light that will not let me stay, And to-morrow the whole of me disappears, The truth should be told, and the fact be faced. That had best been faced in earlier years:
5 days ago · Dominic Selwood (@dominic_selwood). 1 Like. The fictional Wessex of Dorset author and poet Thomas Hardy, born today 1840. Map by Bertram Windle (1902) drawn from discussions with Hardy.
