Abstract
In an early poem entitled Her Immortality, Hardy considers the burden of the elegist in a secular time. Long before writing God's Funeral and before elegizing a century of blessed Hope in The Darkling Thrush, Hardy suggests that he can no longer count on God to help bestow immortality on the dead. A dead woman, forgotten by husband, children, and friends, pleads with the poet, her former lover, asking that he preserve her:
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