Robert Gittings presents poems by THOMAS HARDY
The swallows flew in the curves of an eight
Above the river gleam
In the wet June's last beam
Like little cross-bows animate Thomas Hardy 's novels are better known than his poems. But his poems reveal at least as much of the man. ROBERT GITTINGS , Hardy's biographer, visits Sturminster Newton where Hardy enjoyed the only happy years he had with his first wife, Emma.
Produced by JOHN ORMOND BBC Cymru/Wales
(A poem by John Clare on Friday at
10.35 pm)