The Well-Beloved, originally published in serial form under the title of The Pursuit of the Well-
Beloved, occupies rather a unique position among the whole range of Thomas Hardy's …

Hardys primary interest is, as always, with his characters, and his sympathies are with them
as people rather than with their time in history as the subject or setting of the novel. He …

“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best; but, when a man hath seen the light, this is next best
by far, that with all speed he should go thither, whence he hath come. For when he hath …

Thomas Hardy's fiction comes to prominence with his characteristic descriptive narration that
draws upon visual images or forms. This paper aims to study his descriptive narration in The …

The reception of Hardy's major novels and his poems, although affected by changing literary
fashions over the twentieth century, has not suffered especially from the Modernist reaction …

There are numerous studies of his major lyrics such as elegies for his wife Emma, and the
dramatic-epic The Dynasts (1904-08). These studies frequently associate his poetry with his …

In recent years, Thomas Hardy has seldom been regarded as a comic writer in any important
sense. Yet his comedie talents were widely recognized by his contemporaries, 1 and with …

In terms of novelistic technique and construction, The Woodlanders is arguably the most
accomplished of Hardy's novels, a view that he himself appears to have shared, as in the …

THOMAS HARDY seems to have designed his career with the requirements of the college
English literature curriculum in mind. The nearly equal division of his life between prose and …

The TERMS UNDER W HICH Thomas Hardy can be considered a tragedian are becoming
more and more problematic. In his lifetime and for some time after, he was called “tragic” …