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There were one hundred and six poems in this volume which was published in 1914. One collection of fifteen poems was particularly given the title “Satires of Circumstance” which then became the title of the whole collection of more than a hundred poems. The concerns raised in those fifteen poems were light and inconsequential as proportionate to the reality around Hardy when World War I was just about to commence. This volume contains also the “Poems of 1912-13” which Hardy wrote to memorialize his early adore of Emma Gifford whom he had afterward married. In writing these poems he overlooked the desolation which he had suffered during his married life, and recorded only the gentleness of feeling with which he had regarded Emma during his courtship of her and during the first few years of their married life. In these poems Hardy made amends to Emma for having neglected her and having treated her scruffily, as he thought. These poems comprise possibly the most indisputable love-elegy in the English language. In these poems, and in the narrative behind them, lies a satire of situation more philosophical and across-the-board than any of the other poems in this volume.After going through these poems, Hardy’s second wife began to think that Hardy had perhaps found his greatest happiness with Emma, and that now he longed for eternal rest with her in the grave.