(1840-1928) English novelist and poet. His novels, set in rural “Wessex” (his native West Country), portray intense human relationships played out in a harshly indifferent natural world. They include Far From the Madding Crowd 1874, The Return of the Native 1878, The Mayor of Casterbridge 1886, The Woodlanders 1887, Tess of the d’Urbervilles 1891, and Jude the Obscure 1895. His poetry includes the Wessex Poems 1898, the blank-verse epic of the Napoleonic Wars The Dynasts 1904–08, and several volumes of lyrics.
Hardy was born in Dorset and trained as an architect. His first success was Far From the Madding Crowd. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, subtitled “A Pure Woman”, outraged public opinion by portraying as its heroine a woman who had been seduced. The even greater outcry that followed Jude the Obscure 1895 reinforced Hardy’s decision to confine himself to verse. + prikaži više