Michael Millgate

Many of these poems are historical narratives. Most are set, like so much of Hardy's work, in south-west England: Dorset and adjoining counties. Many, in this and later volumes, are intensely personal, though Hardy pretended...

TH 's first known writing seems to have been a series of competent but undistinguished accounts for the Dorset Chronicle of church restorations he had worked on in his capacity as an architect. These date...