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The night before he died he asked for "Rabbi Ben Ezra" to be read to the finish

Hardy wrote poetry,not to propagate ideas,not to argue or to convert,but because poetry and making of poetry were in fibre of his being

He is unique among English poet-novelists in having produced such a quantity of verse, and so much of it late in life

The lyrical poetry of Thomas Hardy, who stands as the most significant poet between Tennyson and Yeats, bulks large.

In The Dynasts we feel the full force of Hardy's matured character and thought

If Tess had aroused curiosity as to his religious faith,Jude brought a more distressing series of articles questioning his private life

Jude was to be Hardy's closest approach to the psychologically subtle

"Virginia Woolf says:It is as if Hardy himself were not quite aware of what he did,as if his consciousness held more than he could produce