A novelist-turned-poet,
used to spending long hours
at prose,
took to complex rhyme
to spend long hours
at poems.
With nostalgia for tales,
facility,
exhaustion,
and 'The Dynasts',
a tale poem of great length,
came loss of strength.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Thomas Hardy is, as you show, a unique example of a novelist turned poet. 'The Dynasts' would not be an easy poem to read, like most very long poems, I think.