Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and a poet of the naturalist movement.  Hardy was born in 1840 to a lower middle class family. His father was a stonemason.

 In the early age of his life , he was an architect.  Meanwhile he started writing poetry. At that time he became little success also. In 1847 he became a successful writer. Then he married his first wife Emma Gifford but she died in 1912. After her death Hardy published his first collection of poems “ Veteris Vestiglae Flammae” (Vestiges of an Old Flame) . After two years of time Hardy married for the second time. The name of his second wife was Florance Dugdale. 

Hardy wrote a number of novels which became very popular. Some of them are,

·         Madding crowd

·         The Return of the Native

·         The mayor of Caster bridge

·         Jude the obscure

                                                          

 At the age of 55, he returned to writing poetry. Most of his poetry were visionary. Some famous poems of him are,

·         Time’s Laughing Stocks

·         Satires of Circumstances

·         Moments of Vision

·         The man he killed

·         The oxen

Thomas Hardy died in 1928. After his death his second wife wrote Hardy’s biography.