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‘The Darkling Thrush’

by Thomas Hardy

Chris Saunders examines the tension between hope and scepticism in Hardy’s fin de siècle poem

A winter morning in Poyntington, Dorset
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AQA (B) Literature — ‘Aspects of narrative’; ‘Elements of the pastoral’

AQA (A) Literature — ‘Victorian literature’

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