Not until he was fifty - eight years old was his first volume of verse published , and he was sixty - four when the first part of his stupendous epic poem " the dynasts " startled the literary world 一直到他五十八岁时他的第一部诗集才出版,六十四岁时,他的巨著、史诗剧《列王》第一部震动了文坛。
百科解释
The Dynasts is an English-language drama in verse by Thomas Hardy. Hardy himself described this work as "an epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, in three parts, nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes".