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Show Notes
The Darkling Thrush
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44325/the-darkling-thrush
Biography on Thomas Hardy
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/thomas-hardy
Critical Essays
SIMPSON, MATT. “MILLENNIAL THOUGHTS — HARDY’S ‘THE DARKLING THRUSH.’” The Thomas Hardy Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, 1999, pp. 80–84. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/45274455. Accessed 24 Jan. 2026.
SWIER, SUSAN. “‘SOME BLESSED HOPE’: HARDY’S DARKLING THRUSH.” The Hardy Society Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 2010, pp. 75–81. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48561986. Accessed 24 Jan. 2026.
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