Literary Birthday – 2 June – Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840 and died on 11 January 1928.

Thomas Hardy Quotes

1. It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
2. Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
3. That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
4. My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
5. Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
6. Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
7. Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
8. Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
9. To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet
10. If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Like Charles Dickens, he was highly critical of Victorian society. His writing challenged societal mores with their sympathetic portrayals of the hardships of working-class people. He is well known for his novels, including Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jude the Obscure. He focused on tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. The Well-Beloved, first serialised in 1892 and written before Jude the Obscure, was the last of Hardy’s 14 novels to be published, in 1897. Hardy is now recognised as one of the great poets of the 20th century, and his verse had a profound influence on later writers, including Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and Philip Larkin.

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by Amanda Patterson

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