His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush...
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. He is best known for his novels Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jude the Obscure. His works often focus on the decline of rural life and the displacement of traditional values in the face of ...
- Thomas Hardy,Tess of the d'Urberville, Chapter 40 "You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in ...
Winter Words (1928) was published after his death. Because in most cases Hardy published his poems years after he wrote them, the dates of when he wrote these pieces can be determined only by his references to them in The Early Life of Thomas Hardy or The Later Years. Because of this...
Liberty or Death: The Story of Thomas Hardy, Showmaker, and John Cartwright, Landowner, in the Early Struggles for Parliamentary Democracy - 2000 by Ray Hemmings. Read Liberty or Death: The Story of Thomas Hardy, Showmaker, and John Cartwright, Landowner, in the Early Struggles for ...
It is worth noting that the thrush in the poem has to be old and nearing his end because he symbolizes the death of the 19th century, which for Hardy is moribund and by implication threatens to cast its dark shadow over the century about to be born. Despite this the thrush is saying ...
In 1912, Hardy’s wife Emma died. The marriage was childless and had long been a troubled one, but in the years after her death, Hardy memorialized her in several poems. At 74, he married his longtime secretary, Florence Dugdale, herself a writer of children’s books and articles, with...
Hardy became ill with pleurisy in December 1927 and died at Max Gate just after 9 p.m. on 11 January 1928, having dictated his final poem to his wife on his deathbed; the cause of death was cited, on his death certificate, as "cardiac syncope", with "old age" given as a contributo...
of The Bible on him.Nevertheless,though Hardy failed to eliminate thelimitationof Tragic predestination and religious tradition,By the case study analyzing on the works of Thomas Hardy,this paper makes an research on the distinguished religious sense of Thomas Hardy as well as its cause of ...
英国文学之托马斯哈代——德伯家的苔丝 Thomas Hardy and Tess of the D’Urbervilles(LVIII) 1.ppt,b. Her father’s death and the expulsion驱逐 of her family from their cottage transfers the whole burden of the family on her, she is forced go back to Alec. c.