Only four poems, two certainly and two very probably about her, were published in her lifetime, and it is most unlikely that she saw more than a few others in manuscript. Of all this passionate outpouring Emma herself - and it is a truly terrible irony - can have seen scarcely a trace. At least 80 of these are avowedly about their courtship and marriage 20 or so more may, with reasonable certitude, be ascribed to the same creative origin. Thomas Hardy wrote about a hundred poems about Emma Lavinia, his first wife over a tenth of his entire lyric oeuvre.
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