6. Making Of A Poet

• Had Emma's body bought down and placed in the coffin at the foot of his bed for 3 days and 3 nights until the funeral.
• Described his poems to Emma after her death as 'the only amends I can make.' Undercut by the fact this was in a letter to another woman he had loved.
• Second wife, Florence, claimed 'all the poems about her are a fiction but a fiction in which the author has come to believe'
• Emma asked for Hardy whilst dying, not the doctor. By the time he go there it was too late.