Dialect words, colloquial expressions, specialist terminology, poeticism, and foreign words may be found in the same poem. ... In 1898 he published his Wessex Poems, verse that he had written over the previous thirty years. His poems are largely traditional in theme, form, and structure, and show a continuity with the Wordsworthian art of recording the impact of ordinary daily events on an individual and sensitive mind. Hardy was a prolific poet, author of some 900 poems with an extensive range of feelings and attitudes. Some of the poems are gently iro...

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