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Wessex Poems and Other Verses
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Preface
Of the miscellaneous collection of verse that follows, only four pieces have been published, though many were written long ago, and other partly written. In some few cases the verses were turned into prose and printed as such, it having been unanticipated at that time that they might see the light.
Whenever an ancient and legitimate word of the district, for which there was no equivalent in received English, suggested itself as the most natural, nearest, and often only expression of a thought, it has been made use of, on what seemed good grounds.
The pieces are in a large degree dramatic or personative in conception; and this even where they are not obviously so.
The dates attached to some of the poems do not apply to the rough sketches given in illustration, which have been recently made, and,
as may be surmised, are inserted for personal and local reasons rather than for their intrinsic qualities.
T. H.
September 1898.
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Chicago: Thomas Hardy, "Preface," Wessex Poems and Other Verses, ed. Keil, Heinrich, 1822-1894 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in Wessex Poems and Other Verses (New York: George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892), Original Sources, accessed April 23, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=6Q4YDVF14ZPR3R3.
MLA: Hardy, Thomas. "Preface." Wessex Poems and Other Verses, edited by Keil, Heinrich, 1822-1894, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Original Sources. 23 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=6Q4YDVF14ZPR3R3.
Harvard: Hardy, T, 'Preface' in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, ed. and trans. . cited in ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Wessex Poems and Other Verses, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 23 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=6Q4YDVF14ZPR3R3.
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