... for writing. His novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, received negative reviews upon publication and Hardy was criticized for being too occupied with sex. He left fiction writing for poetry, and published eight books of poetry, including Wessex Poems. In his poetry Hardy captures human loss and sorrow. Hardy's ... regret could come from his family not accepting her because she is a lower class than her. In this poem Hardy shows the class and gender restrictions on women in Victorian England. Thomas Hardy wrote this poem in response to Horace Moule's suicide. Moule was a...

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