[2], On a more personal note, his wife Emma disliked the section consisting of love lyrics to various recipients; and especially 'The Ivy Wife', which she felt aimed at her. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 July 2013. Project Gutenberg believes the Court has no jurisdiction over the matter, but until the issue is resolved, it will comply. Composed throughout Hardy's life and animated by his affection for his beloved Wessex, their publication in 1898 heralded the arrival of a major new poetic voice. A Court in Germany ordered that access to certain items in the Project Gutenberg collection are blocked from Germany. Or, clearing the history of your visits to the site. Referrer URL (if available): (none) Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. Lyrical Ballads (Penguin Clothbound Poetry), Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Penguin Clothbound Poetry), Leaves of Grass (Penguin Clothbound Poetry), Goblin Market and Other Poems (Penguin Clothbound Poetry), Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (Penguin Clothbound Poetry). Please try again. [4] 'She at His Funeral' was a tribute to Hardy's friend Horace Moule;[5] while the bitter "Neutral Tones" and the cheerful 'Sergeant's Song' show further aspects of Hardy's range of poetic subjects. If your IP address is shown by Maxmind to be outside of Germany and you were momentarily blocked, another issue is that some Web browsers erroneously cache the block. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 June 2017. Trying a different Web browser might help. [3], Two notable early poems from the collection (1860s) were "Hap" and 'Amabel' - the latter exploring the theme of sexual attraction impacted by age taken up by The Well-Beloved. Try again. Occasionally, the website mis-applies a block from a previous visitor. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Hardy employed a wide range of poetic forms in Wessex Poems: sonnets (including a sixteen line “sonnet” in the form pioneered by George Meredith), ballads, and dramatic monologues among … Blocked at germany.shtml All IP addresses in Germany are blocked. Like many of his novels, these 51 poems are set against the bleak and forbidding Dorset landscape, whose physical harshness echoes that of an indifferent, if not malevolent, universe. I am a huge fan of Thomas Hardy but had not read his poetry until I downloaded this to my kindle.
Here are sprightly Dorset ballads, verses set during the Napoleonic Wars, and personal poems reflecting on Hardy's life and loves. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Your IP address: 85.214.143.63 I heartily recommend this book to others. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Not what I had expected, generally a collection of rather dull poems. This is because the geoIP database shows your address is in the country of Germany. Because blocks are applied momentarily, you should try again later to visit https://www.gutenberg.org if Maxmind shows your address as being outside of Germany. Wessex Poems and Other Verses, by Thomas Hardy. She says it's a good read for those into poetry, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 September 2017, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 January 2015.