Through the Glass Splotchy

the hardy boys / nancy drew?

Thomas Hardy. From the back cover of The World's Classics "Selected Poetry of Thomas Hardy" :

"His verse touches all the common themes of human existence: birth, childhood, love, marriage, ageing, death. If Hardy's age brings anything to them, it is an old man's ironic and elegiac sense that in life hopes are likely to be defeated and losses sustained, and that the world was not designed for human happiness."