Hardy_and_Tess托马斯·哈代简介和作品赏析

Hardy's work refimism and sense of tragedy in human life.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy’s Major works
Poetry: 1898: Hardy published his first book of verse, Wessex Poems 1902: The Dynasts, in dramatic blank verse, was published 1914: A Changed Man and Other Tales was published
Childhood
Hardy was frail as a child, and did not start at the village school until he was 8. One year later he transferred to a new school in the county town of Dorchester. At 16 he was apprenticed to a local architect.
Thomas Hardy
(1840 － 1928)
Contents
1. Hardy’s life 2. 3. 4.
Hardy’s works Features of his novels Tess of the D’urbervilles Discussion of Tess
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Part I
Hardy’s life
Hardy’s Cottage
Pictures of Hardy
Marriage
First: in 1874---Emma Gifford , sister-in-law of a vicar , died in 1912
Second: in 1914 --Florence Dugdale , his secretary, a woman almost 40 years younger than him.
Stories: 1865: How I Built My House---Hardy's first published work and first short story--- appeared in Chamber's Journal, 18 March. 1883: The Three Strangers was published 1887: The Withered Arm was written


Question:
What are his representative works?
first published novel
Desperate Remedies
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
first novel about country life
Under the Greenwood Tree

Question:
What is his position in the history of English Literature?
One of the most important novelists in the Victorian Era and the first important poet in the 20th century. English poet and regional novelist, whose works depict the imaginary county "Wessex" (Dorset).
Wessex novels
In his Wessex novels, there is an apparent nostalgic touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life, which was gradually declining and disappearing as England was marching fast into an industrial country. And with those traditional characters he was always sympathetic and mourns over their failure and misfortune.
on a Tower was published Mayor of Casterbridge was
1891: Tess of the D'Urbervilles began its serial run 1894: Life's Little Ironies was published 1895: Jude the Obscure was published in book form 1897: The Well-Beloved was published
Novels
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Far From the Madding Crowd
first masterpiece
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Jude the Obscure
The Wessex
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset, a rural region of southwestern England that was to become the focus of his fiction. The Wessex of Thomas Hardy’s novels and poems:
Did You Know?
A rumour has persisted since Hardy's death that it is not the author's heart that was buried beside Emma (his wife ).
•The story goes that Hardy's housekeeper placed his heart on the kitchen table, where it was promptly devoured by his cat. Apparently a pig's heart was used to replace Hardy's own. Truth? Fiction? We will probably never know.
Part II

Hardy’s works
Hardy's career as writer spanned over fifty years. His earliest books appeared when Anthony Trollope (1815-82) wrote his Palliser series, and he published poetry in the decade of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Hardy's work reflected his stoical pessimism and sense of tragedy in human life.
1875: The published 1878: The in serial 1880: The serial 1882: Two 1885: The finished
Hand of Ethelberta was
Return of the Native began Trumpet-Major began in
Thomas Hardy was born at Higher Bockhampton, Dorset on June 2, 1840, where his father worked as a builder.
From his father he gained an appreciation of music, and from his mother an appetite for learning and the delights of the countryside about his rural home.
Wessex Poems, 1898 Poems of the Past and Present, 1901 The Dynasts, Part First, 1904 The Dynasts, Part Second, 1906 The Dynasts, Part Third, 1908 Time's Laughingstocks, 1909 Satires of Circumstance, 1914 Moments of Vision, 1917 Late Lyrics and Earlier, 1922 Human Shows, 1925 Winter Words, 1928
About Wessex
1. name of a place 2. natural scenery of Wessex 3. writing style of local- color 4. figures in Wessex 5. imaginative Wessex
Wessex Poems
Novels: 1871: Hardy published the sensation novel Desperate Remedies 1872: Under the Greenwood Tree was published 1873: A Pair of Blue Eyes was published 1874: Far From the Madding Crowd was published
In many respects, Hardy was trapped in the middle ground between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, between Victorian sensibilities and more modern ones, and between tradition and innovation.
Death

After his first wife’s death, Hardy was stricken with guilt and remorse, but the result was some of his best poetry, expressing his feelings for his wife of 38 years. •Thomas Hardy died on Jan. 11, 1928 at his house of Max Gate in Dorchester. •He wished to be buried beside Emma in Stinsford churchyard, but his wishes were only partly regarded. •His body was interred in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, and only his heart was buried in Emma's grave at Stinsford.
Adulthood Hardy later moved to London to work as an architect. He began writing, but his poems were rejected by a number of publishers. Although he enjoyed life in London, Hardy's health was poor, and he was forced to return to Dorset.