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A few months after Thomas Hardy’s death in 1928, and only weeks before his own, Sir Edmund Gosse recorded on two gramophone discs a memorial for his nearly lifelong friend. While Hardy lived, Gosse ...

Self-taught, Thomas Hardy knew a good deal about English poetry when, in his fifties, he laid the fictions by and returned to his first love. He was an honest craftsman, attending meticulously to what ...

When Thomas Hardy’s wife Emma died unexpectedly in 1912, her loss unstoppered a flood of poetry in Hardy. Taken together, his poems about Emma constitute the most original, strangest and arguably the ...

Gyles Brandreth explores the landscape that influenced the author and poet Thomas Hardy. Gyles Brandreth explores the landscape that influenced the author and poet Thomas Hardy. Hardy lived most of ...

THOMAS HARDY (286 pp.)—Edmund Blunden—Macmillan ($3). HARDY AND THE LADY FROM MADISON SQUARE (264 pp.)—Carl J. Weber—Colby ($5). In the 18903 Thomas Hardy was at the summit of his novelist’s career.

The Hardy Society Journal appears twice annually, in spring and summer. Contributions might include – but are not limited to – reports on Society activities and other Hardy-related events, Society ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Thomas Hardy Journal is published each autumn. Over the past three decades, it has become an important force in international ...