Woman Much Missed (Little Black Classics #14)
by:
Thomas Hardy (author)
'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's...
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'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of P
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780141398310 (0141398310)
Publish date: 2015-02-26
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
I'm not very experienced in reading poetry. I can say I like it, but always is small portions. Woman Much Missed collects poems Thomas Hardy wrote after losing his wife in 1912. Therefore, they are all dark in sadness, but beautifully so as Hardy struggles with his loss. There was a lot of symbolism...
Touching poems about lost, at times a bit simplistic but touching.
Thomas Hardy, Victorian and Georgian writer of prose and poetry, most famous for his novels Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, is grief-stricken by the death of his wife Emma in 1912 and writes the melancholic and haunting poetry featured in this Little Black Classic.Whilst I ...
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