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| I look into my glass, / And view my wasting skin, / And say, “Would God it came to pass / My heart had shrunk as thin!” |
| —I look into my Glass |
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| 1840–1928, English novelist and poet, b. near Dorchester, one of the great English writers of the 19th cent. The son of a stonemason, he derived a love of music from his father and a devotion to literature from his mother.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:  här´d from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
- Wessex Poems & Other Verses
Like many of Hardy’s novels, these fifty-one poems are all set against the bleak and forbidding Dorset landscape, whose physical harshness echoes that of an indifferent, if not malevolent, universe.
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- Hardy, Thomas, 26709 to 26818
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