This man wrote a poem wishing for a "vengeful god" to tell him "thy love's 
This man wrote a poem wishing for a "vengeful god" to tell him "thy love's loss is my hate's profiting," while another of his poems includes some "Lines on the loss of the Titanic." This poet of "Hap" and "The Convergence of the Twain" wrote a poem about the title bird flinging "his soul upon the gloom," entitled "The [*] Darkling Thrush." In one novel by this man set in Wessex, the title official sells his wife and child while drunk. Creator of Michael Henchard and author of a novel set in Egdon Heath in which Eustacia Vye, the wife of Clym Yeobright, drowns herself, for 10 points, name this British writer of The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Return of the Native.
This man wrote a poem wishing for a "vengeful god" to tell him "thy love's loss is my hate's profiting," while another of his poems includes some "Lines on the loss of the Titanic."
Thomas {Hardy}