Thomas Hardy 
Wessex Poems and Other Verses [PDF ebook] 

Many of Thomas Hardy’s best-known works of fiction were set in the Dorset region, which he called "Wessex." Many of these poems, written over a period of 30 years, are also set in and deeply influenced by the Wessex landscape. Although Hardy considered himself to be more a poet than a novelist, this was his first published collection of verse.