Self-taught, Thomas Hardy knew a good deal about English poetry when, in his fifties, he laid the fictions by and returned to his first love. He was an honest craftsman, attending meticulously to what ...

In 1912, when he was 72, Thomas Hardy began to write a series of love poems about his wife, Emma. The poems were unlikely for several reasons. First, for years he and Emma had been estranged, and she ...

In the musical Life After, a teenager coping with the loss of her father struggles with the limitations of conventional speech for expressing the complex emotions that surge through the mourning ...

The Hardy Society Journal appears twice annually, in spring and summer. Contributions might include – but are not limited to – reports on Society activities and other Hardy-related events, Society ...

THOMAS HARDY (286 pp.)—Edmund Blunden—Macmillan ($3). HARDY AND THE LADY FROM MADISON SQUARE (264 pp.)—Carl J. Weber—Colby ($5). In the 18903 Thomas Hardy was at the summit of his novelist’s career.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Thomas Hardy Journal is published each autumn. Over the past three decades, it has become an important force in international ...