Late poems - Tarde poesie

The year 1912 was a crucial one in the artistic life of Thomas Hardy. His first wife’s death, Emma Lavinia, after a marriage of love, but long languished in incomprehension, boredom and mutual dislike, generated poetical flowers in the garden of the Victorian writer, elegies of dark and sublime beauty, songs woven with nostalgic reminiscences and gloomy meditations on life. These late poems were published in Satires of Circumstance (1914), Moments of Vision (1917), Late Lyrics and earlier (1922), Human Shows (1925) e Winter Words (1928). Il 1912 rappresenta un anno cruciale nella vita artistica di Thomas Hardy. La morte della prima moglie, Emma Lavinia, dopo un matrimonio d’amore, ma a lungo languito nell’incomprensione, nella noia, nella reciproca insofferenza, fa fiorire nel giardino poetico dell’artista vittoriano elegie di cupa e sublime bellezza, canti intessuti di nostalgiche rimembranze, plumbee meditazioni sull’esistere.