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1897: The Well-Beloved, Hardy's final novel. 1898: Wessex Poems and Other Verses. Emma moves into the attic at Max Gate. 1901: Poems of the Past and the Present (post-dated to 1902). 1904: Hardy's mother Jemima dies. Part 1 of The Dynasts. 1905: Hardy meets Florence Dugdale, who would later become his second wife.
26 de dez. de 2022 · One of the poems that Hardy wrote in 1913 following the death of his wife Emma. “The Voice” is one of a sequence of elegies that Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) wrote as “Poems of 1912–13 ...
He met his first wife, Emma Gifford, in 1870 when he visited Cornwall. He was captivated by both her and the landscape that surrounded her. Some controversy surrounded her methods in securing his hand in marriage. She probably exaggerated her attachment to a local farmer in the hopes of pressing Hardy into a proposal.
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset, England, in June 1840. His first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was finished in 1868 but was turned down by publishers. He married Emma Lavinia Gifford in 1874. Two of Hardy’s most important novels, Jude the Obscure and Tess of the d’Urbervilles were published in 1891 and 1895. He died on January 11, 1928.
Thomas Hardy and his first wife, Emma, had long been estranged when she died in 1912; but her death prompted a series of poems by Hardy which are viewed as being among his best work. The ‘Poems of 1912-13’ see Thomas Hardy revisiting his early courtship and marriage, knowing that those times – and the woman with whom he shared those memories – will never return.
22 de jun. de 2023 · This book explores the many poems that Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) wrote about his wife Emma Hardy (1840–1912). These poems were nearly all composed in the wake of her death. It opens with a detailed analysis of what poetry meant to Hardy, focusing on his concept of poetry as allied to romance and on his quest to portray in verse what he called ‘the other side of common emotions’.
