While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin

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'Thomas Hardy: The Complete Works' contains:

• Desperate Remedies


• Under the Greenwood Tree


• A Pair of Blue Eyes


• Far from the Madding Crowd


• The Hand of Ethelberta


• The Return of the Native


• The Trumpet-Major John Loveday


• A Laodicean


• Two on a Tower


• The Life and Death of The Mayor of Casterbridge


• The Woodlanders


• Tess of the d’Urbervilles


• Jude the Obscure


• The Well-Beloved


• Wessex Tales


• A Group of Noble Dames


• Life’s Little Ironies


• A Changed Man and Other Tales


• Uncollected Stories


• Wessex Poems and Other Verses


• Poems of the Past and the Present


• Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses


• Satires of Circumstance with Miscellaneous Pieces


• Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses


• Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses


• Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles


• Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres


• Uncollected Poems and Fragments