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Thomas Hardy as a War Poet
Thomas Hardy is one of the most famous and prolific British writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most people recognize Hardy as an author of novels, but he preferred to write poetry. Both his novels and his poetry give a pessimistic view of the world. Subjects for his poetry include nature, love, and war. Most of his poems on war have tragic themes and present humans as having little control over their destinies. A major theme of Thomas Hardy’s tragic poems is the hopelessness, loneliness, and brutality of war.
Thomas Hardy described himself as a poet, although his fame and financial success resulted primarily from writing novels. Dennis Taylor says Hardy’s career as a poet spanned over sixty years, resulting in over one thousand poems (201). Harold Orel
points out that Hardy spent more years of his life writing poetry than he did writing prose fiction (2). He preferred to be judged as a poet, not a novelist (Orel 2). In......

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