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[Deborah]

No thread was created for poetry.

[Lily]

Deborah wrote: "No thread was created for poetry."

See @35? Probably slipped off Pip's to do list? I'd suggest one under the Poetry section I cite @49. Then it would be a place people could use during any future reads of Hardy novels as well.

[Deborah]

Hardy poetry thread has been created in the poetry section.

[Lily]

Deborah wrote: "Hardy poetry thread has been created in the poetry section."

Thx, Deborah. You know, I didn't check on what is allowed on this board re creation of threads. On second thought, it is possible either Clari or I or any other member could have done it her/himself. But das macht nichts now. Thanks again.

[Deborah]

Lily wrote: "Deborah wrote: "Hardy poetry thread has been created in the poetry section."

Thx, Deborah. You know, I didn't check on what is allowed on this board re creation of threads. On second thought, it i..."

No worries, that's what I'm here for.

[Clarissa]

Here are a couple of quotes Hardy wrote about being a poet:

'The ultimate aim of the poet should be to touch our hearts by showing his own'
(Hardy quotes from Leslie Stephen in his notebook on 1 July 1879)

‘My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.’
(Thomas Hardy in The Life of Thomas Hardy)

He turned to poetry after the harsh critical and public response to 'Jude', as a more sympathetic medium to write in than the novel.

[Everyman]

Deborah wrote: "Hardy poetry thread has been created in the poetry section."

Thanks. As I think I commented earlier, Hardy actually saw himself more as a poet than a novelist.