Hardy set his" Novels of Character and Environment," as he did most of his other novels,
poems and short stories, around the market town of Dorchester ('Casterbridge'), near his …

Thomas Hardy once claimed that," on account of his inconsistencies," he was actually an"
irrations list" instead of a rationalist. 1 This evasive logic grows out of his reluctance to …

CED's second thought about Hardy's poem is better than his first.[In Exp., March, 1945, III,
Q14, the querist indicated that the first six lines suggest to him" the perdurable vitality of …

poetry. Most conspicuous is the revolutionary change wrought by the steady advance of
science. Beyond the scope of the modern poet is the vision Wordsworth set forth in the “Ode …

This study intends to foreground Thomas Hardy's (1840-1928) social and ecological
responsibility to the ongoing animal exploitation by analyzing his poems from the …

intellectual context‐Hardy and Philosophy Winter Words, Hardy's “last appearance on the
literary stage” The Return of the Native, his first self‐consciously tragic novel Hardy's early …

This study, as the first systematic research of the poetic influence of Thomas Hardy on Xu
Zhimo, is composed of five parts: introduction, analysis of necessary conditions for poetic …

Because of the length of a novel, our memory of it is disproportionately related to its opening
and ending. In the opening chapters, the narrator creates for his readers the physical world …

In Tess of the d'Urbervilles, the heroine is introduced as an innocent in her natural setting," a
mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience", though this is soon destroyed. Hardy …