Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OMwas an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 June 1840
floors
Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang.
cruelty english-novelist nature
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
english-novelist
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
blending courage english-novelist physical
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.