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The introduction explores Hardy’s inward, secretive nature, his preference for silence, and how his personal convictions, doubts about God, and reflections on love, suffering, and mortality are expressed through the poems. 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 \nThen Hardy realized we should want to know something about himself,about the actual writer who had lived and worked so long in Dorset.So hewent through his notebooks and diaries.Everything that seemed to thepoint in explaining Thomas Hardy or Thomas Hardy's writing he put onone side;everything that seemed to him just his own business,not ours,he destroyed.  \nFrom the material which seemed to matter,he arranged memoirs ofhimself;these were to be published after his death,as if entirely by anotherhand.Then he died in his ugly house at Max Gate outside Dorchester,having settled his account with life and with that flow o","cbCaijehVEtid1Li","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijehVEtid1Li","pdf",5976393,93,"English","# Introduction\n## Table of Contents (Poems)\n## Index to First Lines","[{\"question\":\"Who introduces this collection of Thomas Hardy’s poems, and what is the introduction about?\",\"answer\":\"Geoffrey Grigson introduces the collection. 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