Good morning, Thomas Hardy

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THIS SEMESTER Fiction II Unit IV Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles

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Thomas Hardy
An Introduction

Thomas Hardy An Introduction
Life
Time
Works

Life
Birth
Education
Career
Marriage
Achievements
Death

Birth The Hardy Birthplace Marker The marker is situated just behind the Higher Bockhampton thatched cottage . Photograph 2002 by Philip V. Allingham Date of Birth: 2nd June 1840 Tuesday, 8.00am Place of Birth: Stinsford, Dorchester, Dorset, England Father: Thomas Mother: Jemima

Education
Mother educated him till his age of eight
First school at Bockhampton at age eight
For several years he attended a school run by a Mr Last
Learnt Latin and Greek there
In 1862 enrolled at King’s College, London

Career
Architect
Writer

Architect
Joined Hicks, an architect, as an apprentice
Won Prizes from Royal Institute Of British Architects and the Architectural Association

Writer
The Poor Man and the Lady his first novel turned down by publishers
Desperate Remedies his first published novel
Wrote novels, short stories, poems and drama
Stopped writing novels after the publication of Jude the Obscure

Marriage
Marries Emma Gifford in 1874
Emma dies in 1912
Marries Florence Dugdale in 1914

Achievements
Becomes Grand Old Man of English Letters
Won Order of Merit
Won several degrees of honour

Death
On 11 th January 1928, Wednesday just after 9.00 p.m. he passed away
His heart was buried at Stinsford
His ashes were buried in Westminster Abbey

Time
Victorian Age
Victorian Literature
Victorian Writers

Victorian Age
Period between 1832 and 1901
From the Passage of the First Reform Bill to the Death of Queen Victoria
Early Victorian Age 1832-1848
Mid-Victorian Age 1848-1870
Late Victorian Age 1870-1901

Victorian Literature

Victorian Writers Poets
Tennyson
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Christina Rossetti
Matthew Arnold
G. M. Hopkins

Victorian Writers
Essayists
Thomas Carlyle
John Ruskin
Arnold
Walter Pater

Victorian Writers Novelists
Bronte Sisters
Charles Dickens
William Makepeace Thackeray
Elizabeth Gaskell
George Eliot
George Meredith
Anthony Trollope
Thomas Hardy
Samuel Butler

Works
List of Works
Philosophy of Life
Features of his works

List of Works
Novels
Short Story Collections
Poetry Collections
Dramas

Novels
The Poor Man and the Lady [1867 Unpublished]
Desperate Remedies [1871]
Under the Greenwood Tree [1872]
A Pair of Blue Eyes [1873]

Novels
Far From the Madding Crowd [1874]
The Hand of Ethelberta [1876]
The Return of the Native [1878]
The Trumpet-Major [1880]
A Laodicean [1881]

Novels
Two on a Tower [1882]
The Mayor of Casterbridge [1886]
The Woodlanders [1887]
The Well-Beloved [1892 in serial form,1897 in book form]
Jude the Obscure [1895]

Short Story Collections
Wessex Tales [1888]
A Group of Noble Dames [1891]
Life’s Little Ironies [1894]

Poetry Collections
The Photograph [1890]
Wessex Poems and Other Verses [1898]
Poems of the Past and Present [1901]
The Man He Killed [1902]
Times Laughing Stocks and Other Verses [1909]
The Voice [1912]

Poetry Collections
Satires of Circumstance [1914]
Moments of Vision [1917]
Collected Poems [ 1919]
Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses [1922]
Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles [1925]

Poetry Collections
Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres [1928]
The Complete Poems [1976]
Selected Poems[1993]
Hardy: Poems [1995]
Thomas Hardy: Selected Poetry and Nonfictional Prose [1996]
Selected Poems [1998]
Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems [2001]

Dramas
The Dynasts Part 1[1904]
The Dynasts Part 2 [1906]
The Dynasts Part 3 [1908]
The Famous Tragedy of
the Queen of Cornwall at
Tintagel in Lyonnesse [1923]

Philosophy of Life
Pessimistic view of life
Life is to suffer at the hands of external forces
“… happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain”
Man a mere plaything of an impersonal and maligned fate
As flies to wanton boys Are we to the gods, They kill us for their sport King Lear Act IV Sc 1 35-37

Features of His Works
Accusing finger at destiny and taking sides with the protagonist
His plots hinges on Co-incidences and mischances
Close to nature, rural and country scenes
Characters are mostly ordinary men and women living close to the soil
Minor rustics offer pithy humour
Wessex finds a prominent place in his works

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