Barb
You're right you really have to wade through Hardy to find the good ones. He was interested in folk music and local history and I think many of his poems are really songs. Also he didn't edit his poems, I had a 'selected poems' book. Even so it's weird, you can read 5 or 10 disappointing, almost trivial poems and then suddenly there's a masterpiece, some are really extrordinary. He was Dylan Thomas' favourite poet.
Worth the wade!!
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