Write life and works of Thomas Hardy.
Write life and works of Thomas Hardy.
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LIFE AND WORKS
Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840 in the small village of Bockhampton, close to Dorchester, the country town of Dorset. He was descended from Nelson’s captain Hardy and was the son of a builder. Hardy’s mother was an ambitious lady. At his birth the doctors said that he was dead because he was very tiny. His body was feeble and brain was strong. In his early childhood, Hardy was allowed to roam freely to get health and after sometime he was admitted in Mr. Last’s Academy for Young Gentlemen, a private school three miles away from Hardy’s home. His teachers were amazed of his rapidity in learning. At the age of sixteen Hardy got his graduation. he learnt Latin, French, English literature alongwith Shakespeare’s all plays.
After enough contemplation Hardy was planned to turn into a planner, a profession suitable to his father’s business of builder. He got appointment in the firm of an architect. He did not take interest in this mechanical job and began to compose poetry. He remained assistant to Bloomfield for five years is a church planner. In 1863 he won the Royal Academy prize for British Architects. In 1870, Hardy met with Emma Gifford in Cornwall. She Married with Hardy in London in 1874. It was not a suitable marriage. Hardy ever tried to make his home comfortable for his wife but seemed discontented. He wanted to write more and more for financial reasons. His wife provoked him to Compose prose novels. In 1912 Emma died. Hardy at the age of Seventy four years married woman of thirty five, again. She was happy with Hardy.
He continued to write novels. His early works met a severe criticism. He was awarded different honorary degrees by different Universities.
Hardy caught cold in December 1927. He died on January11, 1928 at his Dorchester home. His body was cremated and his ashes buried in the Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey.
Works:
Desperate Remedies (1871)
Under the Green Wood Tree, or The Mellstock Quire (1872)
A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)
Far From the Madding Crowd (1874)
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)
The Return of the Native (1878)
The Trumpet major (1880)
A Laodicean (1881)
Two on a Tower (1882)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
The Woodlanders (1887)
Wessex Tales (1888)
A Group of Noble Dames (1891)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)
Life’s Little Ironies (1894)
Jude the Obscure (1896)
The Well Beloved (1897)
He composed different volumes of Poetry too
Wessex Poems (1898)
Poems of the Past and Present (1901)
The Dynasts I, II, III Parts appeared in 1903, 06, & 08 respectively.
Time’s Laughing Stocks (1909)
Satires of Circumstances (1914)
Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917)
Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922)
Human Shows, Far Fantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)
Winter Words (1928)
Collected Poems (1932)
He wrote short stories too.
Wessex Tales (1888)
A Group of Noble Dames (1891)
Life’s Little Ironies (1894)
A Changed Man (1913)
The Waiting Supper and Other Tales (1913)
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Write the critical appreciation of the poem No. 12 entitled Far Below Flowed.
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Write the critical appreciation of the poem No. 11 entitled Leave this Chanting.
