Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces

1915. Hardy, English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, whose powerfully delineated characters, portrayed in his native Dorset, struggled helplessly against their passions and external circumstances. At the age of 55 Hardy returned to writing poetry, a form he had previously abandoned. Satires of Circumstances is a collection of Hardy's short poems, both lyric and visionary.

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