Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy by J. B. Bullen*1 [gleanings:literary biographies,universality-of-themes-in-fiction] The tragedies of Thomas Hardy‘s novels are indeed dark, but that darkness is a foil to the rightness and optimism of life. As Thomas Hardy recognised, pleasure, joy and satisfaction are emotions understood only in terms of their opposite, and much of the energy in his writing comes from the stress between […]
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