Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.
While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, he became and continues to be widely regarded for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional county of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.
Hardy's poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well regarded as his novels and has had a significant influence over modern English poetry, especially after The Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s cited Hardy as a major figure.
(Wikipedia)

I don't know if you like poetry - but this one needs to travel and there was still space in the package...

This arrived as a surprise book, thanks ApoloniaX! I do like some poetry, so I'll gladly take a look at this one.

Will leave this somewhere around the university tomorrow, for the World Poetry Day.

** Osallistun tällä myös 52 viikkoa -vapautushaasteeseen: maailman runouden päivänä maailmalle vapautuu tietysti runoutta.

I found this at Sirkkala. :)

I am not so much into poems as I try to be. These were fine, but not as touching as I would have wished them to be.

Lukuiloa löytäjälle! The Book was released at the entrance Hall of Minerva building at the University of Turku humanities Campus.