Sofia, PoetryThe OxenThomas Hardy’s ‘The Oxen’ recalls the childhood belief that oxen kneel on Christmas Eve and admits a wistful hope that it might still be so.1 December 2016
Sofia, PoetryThe Levelled Churchyard (extract)An extract from Thomas Hardy’s satirical poem about a levelled churchyard, whose displaced dead cannot tell which grave is theirs, with a note on Hardy’s work removing graves for the railway.1 May 2005
