... architect and he worked in London and Dorset for ten years. Hardy began his writing career as a novelist and was soon successful enough to leave the field of architecture 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 poetry usually explores the negative outlook of fate against. He rejected ... ...

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