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Thomas Hardy claimed that his first love had always been poetry, but it was not until the age of 58 that this first collection, written over a period of 30 years, was published. Wessex was the "partly-real, partly-dream" county that formed the backdrop for most of Hardy's writings—named after an Anglo-Saxon kingdom and modeled on the real counties of Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire. The poems deal with classic Hardy themes of disappointment in love and life, and the struggle to live a meaningful life in an indifferent world. Although Hardy's poetry was not as well received as his fiction, he continued to publish collections until his death, and thanks in part to the influence of Philip Larkin, he is increasingly realized as a poet of great stature.
 
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Hardback Editions

December 2007 : Library Binding
Cover of ISBN: 0781222184Title: Wessex Poems (Works of Thomas Hardy)
Author(s): Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 0-7812-2218-4 / 978-0-7812-2218-1 (USA edition)
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December 2007 : Leather Bound
Cover of ISBN: 1422780600Title: Wessex Poems
Author(s): Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 1-4227-8060-0 / 978-1-4227-8060-2 (USA edition)
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January 1995 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1853310565Title: Wessex Poems (Ryburn Thomas Hardy S.) (Ryburn Thomas Hardy)
Author(s): Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 1-85331-056-5 / 9781853310560 (UK edition)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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December 1994 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1854771450Title: Wessex Poems 1898 (Decadents, Symbolists, Anti-Decadents)
Author(s): Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 1-85477-145-0 / 9781854771452 (UK edition)
Publisher: Woodstock Books
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Paperback Editions

December 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1422740609Title: Wessex Poems
Author(s): Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 1-4227-4060-9 / 978-1-4227-4060-6 (USA edition)
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April 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1843911485Title: Wessex Poems (Hesperus Classics)
Author(s): Thomas Hardy, Tom Paulin
ISBN: 1-84391-148-5 / 9781843911487 (UK edition)
Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
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Other Editions

December 2007 : CD-ROM
Cover of ISBN: 142276060XTitle: Wessex Poems
Author(s): Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 1-4227-6060-X / 978-1-4227-6060-4 (USA edition)
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