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Learn More. "Neutral Tones" is a bleak and pessimistic poem that depicts the end of a love affair and the psychological aftereffects. Thomas Hardy wrote the poem in 1867, though it was not published until 1898 in the collection Wessex Poems and Other Verses. The poem's tone reflects the general skepticism that runs throughout Hardy's work; his ...
Plot Summary. The Withered Arm and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by English poet and novelist Thomas Hardy. It consists of works produced between 1874 and 1888, each of which takes place in a fictional region of Britain called “Wessex.”. The stories involve local folklore, superstition, and myth to build brief, yet complex ...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles:A Pure Woman. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891, [1] then in book form in three volumes in 1891, and as a single volume in 1892.
Life of Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy 1840 - 1928. Thomas Hardy was born on the morning of 2nd June 1840 in the isolated thatched cottage, built by his great-grandfather at Higher Bockhampton, a hamlet on the edge of Piddletown Heath, three miles east of the county town of Dorchester. Both his maternal grandmother Betty and his mother, Jemima ...
Summary. ‘Neutral Tones’ by is about a speaker ’s neutral mental state after being dejected in love. The image of the “pond edged with grayish leaves” displays the speaker’s mental state. This poem by Thomas Hardy is characteristic of typical poems by this author in many ways. First, the speaker in the poem has a sarcastic and ...
Thomas Hardy was born June 2, 1840, in Higher Bockhampton in Dorset, a rural region of southwestern England that was to become the focus of his fiction. The child of a builder, Hardy was apprenticed at the age of sixteen to John Hicks, an architect who lived in the city of Dorchester. The location would later serve as the model for Hardy’s ...
The Trumpet-Major is a novel by Thomas Hardy published in 1880, and his only historical novel. Hardy included it with his "romances and fantasies". It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the eponymous trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Bob, a flighty sailor; and Festus Derriman, the cowardly nephew of the local squire.
