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This is a summary of the book, "The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy." The book is a compilation of poems by Thomas Hardy, and it has an introduction, bibliography, and glossary by Michael Irwin, a professor of English literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Hardy's poems were still powerful and consistent sixty years after he wrote them, and his reputation has continued to grow in the 21st century. Hardy is known for his directness, humanity, and humor, and his poems are accessible to readers of all levels of expertise.
With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina and a consistent individuality of style and vision made him a survivor, immune to literary fashion. At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did, even in his own lifetime. He is now recognised not only as a great poet, but as one who is widely loved. He speaks with directness, humanity and humour to scholarly or ordinary readers alike.
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