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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) always regarded novel-writing as a necessary means of making money. His vocation was poetry.
Apart from his genius, the sheer scale of Hardy's achievement is extraordinary: more than 900 poems produced in sixty-odd years, the last ones, written in his seventies, deeper and stronger than the first. He wrote about any and everything - London and Dorset, war and nature, marriage as well as love - in poems that draw their lifeblood from ballads and folksong. They impress us as being his own local rhythms of thought, conveying passion uninhibited by good manners, in a style "reduced to riches". As well as millions of readers, poets as different as W.H. Auden and John Betjeman have acknowledged a debt to Hardy. Perhaps, as Philip Larkin has suggested, because this least imitable of writers "gave them confidence to feel in their own way ... One can read him again and again and still be surprised."
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