the sequence in all subsequent editions. That twenty-one total was still only a fraction of the fifty or so poems that he wrote to Emma Hardy in his first year of grief, not to mention the hundred or so more he wrote to her during the remainder of his life. See also References Bibliography Buckler, William E. "The Dark Space Illuminated: A Reading of Hardy's Poems of 1912-1913." Victorian Poetry 17 (1979): 98–107. Millgate, Michael, ed. The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1985. Quinn, Maire A. "The Personal Past in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy and Edward Thomas." Critical Quarterly 16:7-28. British poetry collections Poetry by Thomas Hardy