Who is Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was 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, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.

While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclai...
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Thomas Hardy Poems

• Meubles Anciens
  Je ne sais pas comment ça peut être avec les autres
  Qui s'assoient au milieu des reliques de la maison
  Cette date du temps des mères de leurs mères,
  Mais bon je sais comment c'est avec moi ...
• Alte Möbel
  Ich weiß nicht, wie es mit anderen sein kann
  Die inmitten von Relikten der Haushaltsführung sitzen
  Dieses Datum stammt aus den Tagen der Mütter ihrer Mütter,
  Aber gut, ich weiß, wie es bei mir ist ...
• Muebles Viejos
  No sé cómo puede ser con los demás.
  Que se sientan en medio de reliquias de la casa
  Esa fecha de los días de las madres de sus madres,
  Pero bueno se como es conmigo ...
• Tolérance
  «C'est une chose insensée, dis-je,
  «Pour supporter tel, et le passer;
  Pourtant je le fais, je ne sais pas pourquoi!
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• Toleranz
  "Es ist eine dumme Sache", sagte ich, "
  'Mit solchen zu ertragen, und es vorbei zu gehen;
  Aber so weiß ich nicht warum! '
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Thomas Hardy Quotes

• A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
• Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
• The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
• If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.
• The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.

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Comments about Thomas Hardy

• Missdanyp: on page 328 of 525 of tess dei d'urberville, by thomas hardy
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