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6. Making Of A Poet
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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.