Wessex Poems and Other Verses

First edition cover

Wessex Poems and Other Verses is a collection of fifty-one poems set against the bleak and forbidding Dorset landscape by English writer Thomas Hardy, often referred to as simply Wessex Poems. It was first published in 1898 by New York: Harper, ISBN 1-58734-021-6.

Notable poems from the collection include "Hap" and "Neutral Tones."

External links

Wessex Poems and Other Verses at Project Gutenberg
The complete Wessex Poems and Other Verses
Wessex Poems public domain audiobook at LibriVox

Thomas Hardy (works)

Novels	The Poor Man and the Lady (1867) Desperate Remedies (1871) Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) The Hand of Ethelberta (1876) The Return of the Native (1878) The Trumpet-Major (1880) A Laodicean (1881) Two on a Tower (1882) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) The Woodlanders (1887) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891/92) Jude the Obscure (1895) The Well-Beloved (1897)

Short story collections	Wessex Tales (1888) A Group of Noble Dames (1891) Life's Little Ironies (1894) A Changed Man and Other Tales (1913)

Short stories	"The Three Strangers" (1883) "A Mere Interlude" (1885) "Alicia's Diary" (1887) "Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1891) "The Fiddler of the Reels" (1893) "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions" (1894)

Poetry collections	Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898) Poems 1912–13 Satires of Circumstance (1914)

Poems	"Neutral Tones" (1898) "The Darkling Thrush" (1901) "The Ruined Maid" (1901) "The Respectable Burgher" (1901) "The Man He Killed" (1902) "A Trampwoman's Tragedy" (1903) "The Convergence of the Twain" (1915) "The Blinded Bird" (1916)

Plays	The Dynasts (1904–1908)

Related	Thomas Hardy's Wessex Egdon Heath

Life	Thomas Hardy's Cottage Max Gate home Emma Gifford (first wife) Florence Dugdale (second wife)

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Wessex Poems and Other Verses

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