A complete collection of Hardy's poetry, an output of over 900 poems, including his eight books of verse, all the uncollected poems, "Domicilium" and the songs from "The Dynasts". Hardy was fifty-eight years old and had already established his reputation as a novelist when his first book of verse "Wessex Poems" was published. The creative force of these and subsequent poems was such that he is now regarded as a poet of major stature as well as one of the century's finest novelists.