Thomas Hardy - The Dynasts - Part First: "Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art." - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785436090 ISBN 13: 9781785436093

Publisher: Portable Poetry, 2016

Synopsis

Many giants of Literature originate from the shores of these emerald isles; Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, The Brontes and Austen to which most people would willingly add the name Thomas Hardy. Far From The Madding Crowd’,’ Tess Of The D’Urbervilles’, ‘The Mayor Of Casterbridge’ are but three of his literary masterpieces. In fact, Hardy himself thought he was a poet who wrote novels purely for the money. Indeed his poems were not published until he was in his fifties after his major novels were published and his reputation set. His novels of course continue to influence and mentor our thoughts. Each is a journey through a mind that creates characters, landscapes and narratives that reveal themselves in rich and textured detail as few other writers are able to do.

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About the Author

THOMAS HARDY (1840 1928) was an English author and poet best known for his literary masterpieces Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, and The Mayor of Casterbridge. While he achieved success during his lifetime for his novels, Hardy considered himself first and foremost a poet, and his poetry is today recognized as a significant influence on the Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s.

Edition details

• Publisher: Portable Poetry
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785436090
• ISBN 13: 9781785436093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136