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Many poems were written by Hardy at the end of the previous year and the early part of this — more than he had ever written before in the same space of time — as can be seen by referring to their subjects, as well as to the dates attached to them. To adopt Walpole’s words concerning Gray, Hardy was ‘in flower’ in these days, and, like Gray’s, his flower was sad-coloured.
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Hardy, F.E. (1962). Revisitings, Second Marriage, and War Writings. In: The Life of Thomas Hardy 1840–1928. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00286-3_32
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