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Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy’s poetry was acclaimed by younger poets who viewed him as a mentor.
“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
“People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.”
“Well, what I mean is that I shouldn’t mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.”
“She was of the stuff of which great men’s mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”
"A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor."
-note; unknown to most people, the above quote, taken from Hardy’s, The Return of the Native , was written before a live audience in an outdoor stadium in Dorchester in 1877. The historic moment was captured for posterity by Monty Python’s Flying Circus , with the recording below giving us 4 minutes of insight into the Victorian master’s technique.
Monty Python - Novel Writing
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- - - - - - -“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
“People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.”
“Well, what I mean is that I shouldn’t mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.”
“She was of the stuff of which great men’s mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”
"A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor."
-note; unknown to most people, the above quote, taken from Hardy’s, The Return of the Native , was written before a live audience in an outdoor stadium in Dorchester in 1877. The historic moment was captured for posterity by Monty Python’s Flying Circus , with the recording below giving us 4 minutes of insight into the Victorian master’s technique.
Monty Python - Novel Writing
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