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Elizabeth
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A bit tedious but interesting enough to not quit
— Nov 03, 2025 02:45PM
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Inna
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The night before he died he asked for "Rabbi Ben Ezra" to be read to the finish
— Jan 30, 2010 03:02AM
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Inna
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Hardy wrote poetry,not to propagate ideas,not to argue or to convert,but because poetry and making of poetry were in fibre of his being
— Jan 30, 2010 02:38AM
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Inna
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there is more than gentle pathos here, there is rebellious emotion expressed with an effective economy of words.
— Jan 30, 2010 02:28AM
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Inna
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He is unique among English poet-novelists in having produced such a quantity of verse, and so much of it late in life
— Jan 30, 2010 02:21AM
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Inna
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The lyrical poetry of Thomas Hardy, who stands as the most significant poet between Tennyson and Yeats, bulks large.
— Jan 30, 2010 02:19AM
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Inna
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In The Dynasts we feel the full force of Hardy's matured character and thought
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Inna
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If Tess had aroused curiosity as to his religious faith,Jude brought a more distressing series of articles questioning his private life
— Jan 29, 2010 12:30PM
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Inna
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Jude was to be Hardy's closest approach to the psychologically subtle
— Jan 29, 2010 12:26PM
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Inna
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"Virginia Woolf says:It is as if Hardy himself were not quite aware of what he did,as if his consciousness held more than he could produce
— Jan 29, 2010 11:39AM
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Inna
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In choosing Stonehenge as the setting for her last hours with Angel, Hardy stressed the sacrificial elements involved
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Inna
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Tess was not only the victim of Fate,Circumstance,a malign progenitor of bestial people,she was also the victim of her own sensuality
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Inna
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In these days, when Tess is given to sixth form girls to study, it is difficult to understand the controversy which raged round this book
— Jan 29, 2010 06:24AM
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Inna
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He wrestled with the details from morning till night,altered the plot and worked in a fit of depression,as if enveloped in a leaden cloud
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Inna
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Despite its lyrical qualities, the imaginative fire which makes it glow like an inspired canvas,Tess seeks to teach a great moral lesson
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Inna
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force of Hardy's antitheses lies in essential contrast of the homely with the grand,the minute with the vast,the temporal with the eternal
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Inna
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... to the taste of the Victorian public: the critics, always demanded that a story should be plausible even if life is not ...
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Inna
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... concerned with the art of writing fiction-how to create illusion and yet preserve the balance between common and uncommon,
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Inna
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When he is most inspired he writes with such fervour that we are carried along as on some festival platform,high above the improbabilities
— Jan 27, 2010 09:59AM
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Inna
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Hardy never abandoned this original theme of mis-mating, desertion and belated return to the first love
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Inna
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The unequal quality of the writing, which we come to associate with even the best of Hardy's work, ...
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Inna
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Marriage, inter-marriage, and mis-matings between members of dis-similar classes, were stock themes of the Victorian novelists
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Inna
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English literature is steeped in the ups-and-downs of social rank.
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Inna
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Hardy, explored the outer world and then re-examined it in solitude, mentally re-creating the scene which had emotionally moved him
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Inna
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Hardy's descriptive passages involve the use of similes and metaphors which, at their best, are unsurpassed.
— Jan 27, 2010 07:49AM
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Inna
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Hardy admired Trollope for his construction, and he respected George Eliot. He considered her a 'great thinker'
— Jan 27, 2010 07:37AM
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