Front matter
Reading edition

POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
BY THOMAS HARDY
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON 1919
COPYRIGHT
“Wessex Poems”: First Edition, Crown 8vo, 1898. New Edition 1903. First Pocket Edition June 1907. Reprinted January 1909, 1913
“Poems, Past and Present”: First edition 1901 (dated 1902) Second Edition 1903. First Pocket Edition June 1907 Reprinted January 1908, 1913, 1918, 1919