Thomas Hardy was part of the English naturalist movement. He wrote short stories, novels, and poetry. Poems in this collection include The Temporary The All, Amabel, Hap, "In Vision I Roamed", At a Bridal, Postponement, A Confession to a Friend in Trouble, Neutral Tones, She, Her Initials, Her Dilemma, Revulsion, She, To Him, Ditty, The Sergeant's Song, Valenciennes, San Sebastian, The Stranger's Song, The Burghers, Leipzig, The Peasant's Confession, The Alarm, Her Death and After, The Dance at the Phoenix, The Casterbridge Captains, A Sign-Seeker, My Cicely, Her Immortality, The Ivy-Wife, A Meeting with Despair, Unknowing, Friends Beyond, To Outer Nature, Thoughts of Phena, Middle-Age Enthusiasms, and many more.