Thomas Hardy was one of the greatest Victorian novelists. He was born in 1840 in Dorset, England and spent his childhood in the countryside, which influenced his writing. His most famous novels include Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. Hardy wrote about the struggles of the working class and conflicts between rural and urban life. He was skilled at character development and populated his novels with complex characters from rural Wessex. Hardy's realistic style had a large impact on future generations of writers. He died in 1928 and his ashes are buried in Westminster Abbey.

1. THOMAS HARDY AS
A NOVELIST:

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3. Thomas Hardy:
His Life:
Hardy’s Style of writing:
Famous Work:
His Art of Characterization:
Hardy’s impact on Future
Literature:
Death:
Conclusion:

4. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928):
-English Novelist and poet:
-Hardy was a victorian Realist who was influenced
Romanticism.
-He wrote about Problems of Victorian Society Particular,
declining rural life.
-He was educated at a local school and later in dorchester,
and his youth was spent in the countryside around that town,
where shortly afterward he began to study with an architect.
-In 1910 he was awarded the order of merit.
-His heart lies buried in his fictional town ‘Wessex’, though
his ashes have a place among the great in westminster
Abbey. (Albert )

5. His Life:
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), one of the greatest Victorian novelists and poets
was born in the village of Upper Bockhampton, near Dorchester in Dorset.
He was the first child of Thomas and Jemima Hardy.
His father was master- mason and a violinist, which meant the Hardy
family was middle class. His mother came from a family long established in
Dorset.
Hardy spent his childhood with his parents pleasantly. Between his
parents, Hardy gained all the interests that would later appear in his novels
and his own life, his love for architecture and music, his interest in the
lifestyle of the country and his passion for literature.
Especially, he inherited a love of music from his father, a love of reading
from his mother and strength of personality from both of them.(“1 Chapter I: Hardy as a
Victorian Novelist Victorian Features in Hardy's Writing Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), one of the greatest V”)

6. Hardy’s Style of writing:
-Thomas Hardy is best known for writing about the bleak fate of the
working class as imposed on them by social norms and the privilege of the
wealthy. He is known both as a poet and a novelist; however, his most
famous works are the novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the
Obscure.(Albert )
-Among the varieties of poetic modernism, Thomas Hardy's is distinctive
because of its class-inflected, skeptical, self-implicating tendencies.
-Use of colour strongly linked to emotion and experiments especially
connected with natural landscape.
-Important role of the language of sense impressions.(Albert )

7. Famous Work:
-Thomas Hardy has produced many masterpieces. Some of his best poem include.
1.The Darkling Thrush:
2.The Man he Killed:
-Besides poetry, he tried his hands on novels.Some of his best novels included. In his novels he
presented the conflict between the new urban and the rural civilizations.(Albert )
1.The Mayor of Casterbridge:(1886)
2.Far from the madding crowd:(1874)
3.Tess of the D’Urbervilles:(1891)
4.Jude the Obscure:(1896)(Albert )

8. His Art of Characterization:
-Hardy’s unique power of characterization has added a
great charm to all his novels.
-He draws his characters belonging to the wessex
region. His heroes and heroines are peasants,
shepherds, labourers and singers.
He fails in creating aristocratic characters. His
characters are emotional rather than intellectual.
-Some of them are Tess, Oak and Bathsheba.
(“1 Chapter I: Hardy as a Victorian Novelist Victorian Features in Hardy's Writing Thomas Hardy (1840-
1928), one of the greatest V”)

9. Hardy’s impact on Future Literature:
-Thomas Hardy’s indifferent style has left deep imprints on
international literature.
-His distinctive writing approach and unique way of expression
made him stand out among the best victorian novelist.
-His thoughtful ideas influenced many great poet and writers
including, D.H.Lawrence, John Cowper powys, and Edward Driffield.
-He ideas and feelings in his writing that even today writers try to
imitate his unique style, considering him a Beacon for writing pose
and poetry. (“1 Chapter I: Hardy as a Victorian Novelist Victorian Features in Hardy's Writing Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), one of

10. Death:
-Hardy was also an accomplished poet
and Novelist.(Albert )
-He died in 1928.
-His ashes are in poets’ corner of
Westminster Abbey and his heart is
buried in stainford with his first wife.

11. Conclusion:
-Thus, Hardy was the prominent victorian
novelist.
-His philosophy and views about life, love,
marriage, destiny and death are reflected in his
works.
-He was the creator of the philosophical novel.
-He also gave to the novel a new and
impressive architecture pattern.
(“1 Chapter I: Hardy as a Victorian Novelist Victorian Features in Hardy's Writing Thomas Hardy (1840-
1928), one of the greatest V”)

12. Works Cited
-Albert, Edward. History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1979.
-“1 Chapter I: Hardy as a Victorian Novelist Victorian Features in Hardy's Writing
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), one of the greatest V.” DSpace at Tribhuvan
University Central Library (TUCL),
https://elibrary.tucl.edu.np/bitstream/123456789/453/2/Chapter.pdf.
Accessed 17 October 2022.