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	Thomas Hardy - Biography and Works
		Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English poet and novelist, famous for his depictions of the imaginary county "Wessex".
		Thomas Hardy was born on Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester on June 2, 1840.
		Hardy succeeded on the death of his friend George Meredith to the presidency of the Society of Authors in 1909.
	www.online-literature.com /hardy (986 words)

	Thomas Hardy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was a novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, who delineated characters struggling against their passions and circumstances.
		Thomas Hardy was born at Higher Bockhampton near Dorchester in Dorset.
		Hardy had an eye for poignant detail, such as the spreading bloodstain on the ceiling at the end of Tess or little Jude's suicide note; he kept clippings from newspaper reports of real events and used them as details in his novels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Hardy (1206 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Thomas Hardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Hardy saw himself primarily as a poet claiming that his extraordinary novel-writing career was due to financial expediency.
		Hardy's first-hand knowledge of the economic hardships suffered by rural women and their pragmatic attitude to sexual relationships, coupled with his friendships with forward-thinking and cultured women in London, encouraged the development of strikingly unconventional conceptions of women and sexuality in his novels.
		Hardy's novels – particularly the later ones – are marked by a grim determinism shading into pessimism but this is balanced by acute social criticism and a deep sympathy with the plight of the human individual in an indifferent and godless universe.
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	Thomas Hardy (naval officer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, RN (April 5, 1769–September 20, 1839) was a British naval officer.
		Nelson was shot as he paced the decks with Hardy and as he lay dying, Nelson's famous remark of "Kiss me Hardy" was directed at him (although these were not Nelson's last words, as is sometimes claimed).
		Hardy Bay and the District of Port Hardy, on Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and Hardy Island on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada are named after Thomas Hardy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Hardy_(naval_officer) (240 words)

	Introduction to Fiction Online Chapter 10 -- Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Hardy was born in the community of Higher Bockhampton, about two miles from the town of Dorchester, in Wessex, England, on June 2, 1840.
		Hardy spent a good portion of his last years dictating (or ghost-writing) large parts of her two-volume biography of him, and was preparing his final collection of poems for publication when he died on January 11, 1928.
		Hardy has few equals in his combination of seriousness and skill, and has long been recognized as one of the very greatest of British novelists, for his detailed depiction of a now-vanished way of life, his extraordinary delineation of the subtleties of human personality, and the overwhelming power of his presentation of tragic destinies.
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	MSN Encarta - Thomas Hardy
		Hardy was born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorsetshire, June 2, 1840, and educated in local schools and later privately.
		All are pervaded by a belief in a universe dominated by the determinism of the biology of Charles Darwin and the physics of the 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton.
		Hardy's vision is the same as in his novels: History and the actors, who are racked by feeling, are nevertheless dominated by necessity.
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	Thomas Hardy: Political Reformer
		Thomas Hardy was born in Larbert in Scotland on 3rd March 1752.
		Thomas Hardy later wrote that he now knew that the men in the House of Commons were "falsely calling themselves the representatives of the people, but who were, in fact, selected by a comparatively few individuals, who preferred their own particular aggrandisement to the general interest of the community."
		Hardy was appointed as treasurer and secretary of the organisation.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRhardy.htm (1165 words)

	Thomas Hardy - Books and Biography
		Hardy's gigantic panorama of the Napoleonic Wars, THE DYNASTS, composed between 1903 and 1908, was mostly in blank verse.
		Hardy succeeded on the death of his friend George Meredith to the presidency of the Society of Authors in 1909.
		Hardy kept to his marriage with Emma Gifford although it was unhappy and he had - or he imagined he had - affairs with other women passing briefly through his life.
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	Thomas Hardy biography
		Thomas Hardy was born at Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, on June 2, 1840, where his father worked as a master mason and builder.
		Hardy was frail as a child, and did not start at the village school until he was eight years old.
		Thomas was stricken with guilt and remorse, but the result was some of his best poetry, expressing his feelings for his wife of 38 years.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/bio/hardy.htm (646 words)

	First World War.com - Prose & Poetry - Thomas Hardy
		Hardy's marriage had also suffered from the public outrage - critics on both sides of the Atlantic abused the author as degenerate and called the work itself disgusting.
		Hardy kept to his marriage with Emma Gifford although it was unhappy and he had - or he imagined he had - affairs with other women passing briefly through his life.
		According to a dubious literary anecdote his heart was to be buried in Stinsford, his birthplace, and all went according to plan until a cat belonging to the poet's sister snatched the heart off the kitchen where it was temporarily kept and disappeared into the woods with it.
	www.firstworldwar.com /poetsandprose/hardyt.htm (1327 words)

	Thomas Hardy
		Hardy's gigantic panorama of the Napoleonic Wars, THE DYNASTS, composed between 1903 and 1908, was mostly in blank verse.
		Hardy's ashes were cremated in Dorchester and buried with impressive ceremonies in the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.
		Hardy bravely challenged many of the sexual and religious conventions of the Victorian age.
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	Thomas Hardy
		Hardy asks Emma why she compels him to go outside, making him think, momentarily, that he sees her figure in the dusk, in the place where she used to stand, but ultimately distressing him as, in the gathering gloom, he sees only “yawning blankness” and not the familiar figure of Emma.
		Hardy's deep love of nature appears in his choice of the places where he walks, the haunts of those given to reverie (daydreaming or contemplation): where the hares leave their footprints, or the nocturnal haunts of rooks.
		Hardy insists that his outlook in both the literal sense (“my eyes”) and the metaphorical sense (“thought”) be confined to the “common lamp-lit room” (the moonlight having been excluded) where the reader imagines him to be writing.
	www.universalteacher.org.uk /poetry/hardy.htm (10068 words)

	Thomas Hardy
		His family was one of the branches of the Dorset Hardys, formerly of influence in and near the valley of the Frome, claiming descent from John Le Hardy of Jersey (son of Clement Le Hardy, Lt. Gov.
		Hardy was educated at local schools, 1848-54, and afterwards privately, and in 1856 was articled to Mr John Hicks, an ecclesiastical architect of Dorchester.
		In all his work Hardy is concerned with one thing, seen under two aspects; not civilization, nor manners, but the principle of life itself, invisibly realized in humanity as sex, seen visibly in the world as what we call nature.
	www.nndb.com /people/978/000084726 (791 words)

	Thomas Hardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hardy`s birthplace is a cottage at Higher Bockhampton, near Dorchester where he lived until he was 21 and where his parents lived all their lives.
		Hardy blamed the stench from the sewage-decorated mud at low tide for the ill-health which drove him back to Dorset after 5 years working in London.
		Hardy lived in Weymouth for most of 1869, when it was still a fashionable resort.
	www.prestigeweb.com /hardy/note.html (579 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Thomas Hardy
		Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June, 1840 – 11 January, 1928) was a novelist and poet, generally regarded as one of the greatest figures in English literature.
		Thomas Hardy was born at Upper Bockhampton near Dorchester in Dorset.
		Hardy received Graves and his newly married wife very warmly and was encouraging about the younger author's work.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Thomas_Hardy (891 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Thomas Hardy
		Thomas Hardy was born June 2, 1840, in the village of Upper Bockhampton, located in Southwestern England.
		Between his parents, Hardy gained all the interests that would appear in his novels and his own life: his love for architecture and music, his interest in the lifestyles of the country folk, and his passion for all sorts of literature.
		Hardy loved the apprenticeship because it allowed him to learn the histories of the houses and the families that lived there.
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	Thomas Hardy
		THOMAS HARDY the great novelist, has made much of Dorset famous as the ‘Hardy’ country, for he was born in the hamlet of Higher Bockhampton on June 2nd, 1840, and thereafter with the exception of five years, lived out his 87 years of life in the county that he loved so much.
		Thomas Hardy died at Max Gate in 1928.
		"Thomas Hardy, O.M., was born in the adjacent cottage, 2nd June, 1840, and in it he wrote Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd.
	www.thedorsetpage.com /people/Thomas_Hardy.htm (494 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Hardy, Thomas
		Hardy himself classified his novels under three headings: "novels of character and environment" such as Tess of the D'Urbervilles, "romances and fantasies" such as The Trumpet Major and "novels of ingenuity" such as A Laodicean.
		Thomas Hardy, we are told, gained inspiration for his novels from stories in his local paper.
		The burial of Thomas Hardy in Westminster Abbey was in effect a sufficient answer to his own philosophy.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-81,00.html (477 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Thomas Hardy
		Thomas Hardy, the son of a stonemason, was born in Dorsetshire, England, in 1840.
		Hardy began his writing career as a novelist, publishing Desperate Remedies in 1871, and was soon successful enough to leave the field of architecture for writing.
		Hardy's poetry explores a fatalist outlook against the dark, rugged landscape of his native Dorset.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/110 (261 words)

	The Thomas Hardy Society - about us
		Thomas Hardy is now regarded throughout the world as one of the greatest of English writers.
		The Thomas Hardy Society was established in 1968, the fortieth anniversary of Thomas Hardy’s death.
		Dorchester, Hardy’s Casterbridge, and it works closely with the Dorset County Museum which has the greatest collection of Hardy manuscripts, books and memorabilia in the world, and attracts many scholars.
	www.hardysociety.org /aboutus.htm (389 words)

	Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
		I read far from the Madding Crowd a few months ago and I found it funny it seemed overly melodramatic and Bathsheba and her suitors with the exception of Troy were kind of absurd.
		Hardy was too pesimist to present a clear and vivid picture of human beings and society of his times.
		Thomas Hardy is unequivocally one of the greatest writers in the history of English literature.
	www.online-literature.com /hardy/Madding (1145 words)

	Thomas Hardy at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
		Hardy's works are primarily concerned with the suffering of the rural poor, and the rise of industry and injustice.
		Hardy's work reflected his stoical pessimism and sense of tragedy in human life.
		The character of Eustacia Vye -- The essay is on Eustacia Vye Hardy's wonderful creation in The Return Of the Native.
	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Hardy (616 words)

	Thomas Hardy Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
		Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset, in the village of Higher Bockhampton near Dorchester to a simple rural life.
		After his schooling in Dorchester, Hardy pursued a career as an architect, training as an apprentice locally when he was 16.
		This was a period of great change for the young Hardy who was used to rural existence and had held a strong enough faith to consider taking Holy Orders in the early 1860s.
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	Cordula's Web. Thomas Hardy
		Thomas Hardy's section in the DMOZ Open Directory.
		Hardy's stories often take place in the "partly-real, partly-dream" county of Wessex (named after an Anglo-Saxon kingdom which existed in the area), modeled on the real counties of Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire.
		Hardy's cottage at Brockhampton and his house in Dorchester are owned by the National Trust.
	www.cordula.ws /a-hardyt.html (440 words)

	Thomas Hardy - his life and works
		Thomas Hardy born in Dorchester - father a bricklayer, later a builder, musical easy-going; mother hardworking, ambitious, and very literate.
		Hardy therefore witnessed first-hand the death of old pastoral traditions and the rise of industrialisation.
		Hardy witnesses the hanging of a young woman - a scene he was to use thirty years later in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
	www.mantex.co.uk /ou/aa810/hardy-02.htm (1054 words)

	Overview of Thomas Hardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Hardy had a difficult time finding a publisher for Tess of the D'Urbervilles, which was first serialized in a magazine and then published in book form.
		Or Hardy is distinguishing between the act and the intention, a distinction Angel Clare finally makes in the novel.
		John Holloway describes the events and stages in Darwinian terms: organism, environment, struggle, adaptation, fertility, survival, resistance; Hardy envisaged the individual as subject to the same ultimates as a species--establishment and extinction.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/novel_19c/hardy (774 words)

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