Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

 

1, English novelist and poet
-he was an English novelist and poet

2, 2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928

-he was born in Bockhampton, which is a hamlet to the east of Dorchester in Dorset, England

3, Influence

-a Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Elliot, he was also influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth

-he was also influenced by Charles Dickens

4, Rural society

-Hardy focused on a declining rural society

1, Family

-his father Thomas Worked as a stonemason and local builder

-his mother Jemima was well-read

2, Education

-at school he learned Latin and could do well academically, however, the family was not able to send him to university

-first he trained as an architect, later moved to London and studied at the King’s College

3, Architect

-he was successful architect

-won prizes from the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Architectural Association

4. Wives

-he was married twice

-his first wife was Emma Lavinia Gifford, although they later became estranged

-her death in 1912 had a traumatic effect on him

-his second wife was Florence Emily Dugdale, who was 39 years his junior

His works

-> novels

-> short stories

-> poetry

-> drama

-Hardy is known primarily as a novelist, although he also published short stories, poetry, drama

Hardy divided his novels into three classes:

1) Novels of Character and Environment

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)

The Return of the Native (1878)
The Mayor of the Casterbridge (1886)
The Woodlanders (1887)
Tess of the d‘Urbervilles (1891)
Jude the Obscure (1895)

..

2) Romances and Fantasies

A pair of Blue Eyes (1873)
Two on a Tower (1882)

..

3) Novels of Ingenuity

Desperate Remedies (1871)
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)

..

Short stories
How I Built Myself A House (1865)
The Three Strangers (1883)
Alicia‘s Diary (1887)
A Tragedy Of Two Ambitions (1888)

..

Poetry collections
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)
The Voice (1912)
Satires of Circumstance (1914)

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Drama
The Dynasts (verse drama) – Part 1 (1904), Part 2 (1906), Part 3 (1908)

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Location in novels

-Wessex regions and actual English counties

->Lower, Devon, position on map 9
-> Mid, Wiltshire, position on map 37
-> North, Berkshire, position on map 2
-> Outer, Somerset, position on map 30
-> South, Dorset, position on map  10
-> Upper, Hampshire, position on map 14

 zdroj: wikipedia

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