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    <body><![CDATA[I know a little too much about Thomas Hardy, thanks to a college seminar on his life and work.  It's my humble opinion that some of Hardy's poetry is genius, like Neutral Tones. Much of his poetry is heavy with regret, memory, bleakness, mourning, and lots of other profound emotions.  There are some...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10041745">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[“Try living in the real world, instead of a shell… I was bored before I even began,” crooned Stephen Patrick Morrissey in the dim and distant days of the eighties. <br/><br/>There was a time that I, as a young man gazing in befuddlement at the folly of man, might have nodded my head in agree...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77245276">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I got curious about Hardy's poetry after a discussion on Slate regarding the poem, The Darkling Thrush.  Hardy's definitely a melancholic poet, most concerned with the darker, bleaker side of life, and writes beautiful poems in that manner. It's been too long since I last read a poet who uses establ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41926648">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hardy's verse takes shit but I wouldn't change him.  However I DO think he may have killed his wife, give the deeply redundant and eulogistic Tell Tale Heart-esque paranoia about his lyrical grieving...]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Only after Hardy's death did his poetry begin to receive the  acclaim it demands. Experimenting vigorously with rhythm, stress and  verse forms, Hardy colors the depths of his thematic efforts with  technical vibrancy. Whether dwelling on personal grief or tender domestic  dramas, his genius for rhetorical ambiguity continues to challenge  critical expertise.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would say he was one of the greatest English poets, if he hadn't inflicted THE DYNASTS upon blameless future generations.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Treasury of 70 poems remarkable for lyricism, subtlety, deep emotion and intense perception expressed with a unique diction and imaginative power. &quot;The Darkling Thrush,&quot; &quot;Hap,&quot; &quot;The Ruined Maid,&quot; &quot;The Convergence of the Twain,&quot; &quot;Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?,&quot; &quot;I Look into My Glass&quot; and many more.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[So melancholy!  I'm glad this was only a selection instead of the complete works.  I like Hardy, but after a while he is just depressing.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hardy&#039;s Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Hardy (1995)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I find Hardy's poems much better than his short stories. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hardy's poetry is even better than his prose.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beeny Cliff &lt;3]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hardy is better known for his novels, but quickly became my favorite poet upon my first exposure to him in this compilation in a class my freshman year at Pomona. Soem poems touch upon a personal level, others just reach me for some inexplicable reason, and all are beautifully written. Hardy more th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/443782">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hardy's poems are really a mixed bag for me. Some of them are wonderful. Some don't really work. When I was a student, I read that the reason he wrote poetry in his later years was because of the violent reception of Jude the Obscure (it was publicly burned by many a religious zealot). ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. I never thought Thomas Hardy would be such an awesome poet. &quot;Channel Firing&quot; is the shit and so are quite a few others. Now I've really got to read Jude the Obscure...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[He's like one of those elderly relatives of whom you say, &quot;He's a miserable git, but that's why we love him&quot;.<br/> 'The Convergence Of The Twain' remains one of my favourites.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hardy's poems and short stories came just before the Victorian Era tried to destroy all that is good and right in literature.  As such, it is pretty good.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/> I LOVE some of his poetry, the sound the meter the bleak....sweeps me away every single time.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Thomas Hardy is a joke.  How can anyone take this morbid stuff seriously?]]></body>
    
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