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Good Morning. THIS SEMESTER. Fiction II Unit IV Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles. THIS CLASS. Thomas Hardy An Introduction. Thomas Hardy An Introduction. Life Time Works. Life. Birth Education Career Marriage Achievements Death. Birth. The Hardy Birthplace Marker

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  1. Good Morning

  2. THIS SEMESTER Fiction II Unit IV Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles

  3. THIS CLASS Thomas Hardy An Introduction

  4. Thomas HardyAn Introduction Life Time Works

  5. Life Birth Education Career Marriage Achievements Death

  6. Birth The Hardy Birthplace Marker The marker is situated just behind the Higher Bockhampton thatched cottage. Photograph 2002 by Philip V. Allingham Date of Birth: 2nd June 1840 Tuesday, 8.00am Place of Birth: Stinsford, Dorchester, Dorset, England Father: Thomas Mother: Jemima

  7. Education Mother educated him till his age of eight First school at Bockhampton at age eight For several years he attended a school run by a Mr Last Learnt Latin and Greek there In 1862 enrolled at King’s College, London

  8. Career Architect Writer

  9. Architect Joined Hicks, an architect, as an apprentice Won Prizes from Royal Institute Of British Architects and the Architectural Association

  10. Writer The Poor Man and the Lady his first novel turned down by publishers Desperate Remedies his first published novel Wrote novels, short stories, poems and drama Stopped writing novels after the publication of Jude the Obscure

  11. Marriage Marries Emma Gifford in 1874 Emma dies in 1912 Marries Florence Dugdale in 1914

  12. Achievements Becomes Grand Old Man of English Letters Won Order of Merit Won several degrees of honour

  13. Death On 11th January 1928, Wednesday just after 9.00 p.m. he passed away His heart was buried at Stinsford His ashes were buried in Westminster Abbey

  14. Time Victorian Age Victorian Literature Victorian Writers

  15. Victorian Age Period between 1832 and 1901 From the Passage of the First Reform Bill to the Death of Queen Victoria Early Victorian Age 1832-1848 Mid-Victorian Age 1848-1870 Late Victorian Age 1870-1901

  16. Victorian Literature Prose or Verse the literature of the age reflected the pressing issues of the age such as: • Social • Economic • Religious • Intellectual

  17. Victorian WritersPoets Tennyson Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning Christina Rossetti Matthew Arnold G. M. Hopkins

  18. Victorian Writers Essayists Thomas Carlyle John Ruskin Arnold Walter Pater

  19. Victorian WritersNovelists Bronte Sisters Charles Dickens William Makepeace Thackeray Elizabeth Gaskell George Eliot George Meredith Anthony Trollope Thomas Hardy Samuel Butler

  20. Works List of Works Philosophy of Life Features of his works

  21. List of Works Novels Short Story Collections Poetry Collections Dramas

  22. Novels The Poor Man and the Lady [1867 Unpublished] Desperate Remedies [1871] Under the Greenwood Tree [1872] A Pair of Blue Eyes [1873]

  23. Novels Far From the Madding Crowd [1874] The Hand of Ethelberta [1876] The Return of the Native [1878] The Trumpet-Major [1880] A Laodicean [1881]

  24. Novels Two on a Tower [1882] The Mayor of Casterbridge [1886] The Woodlanders [1887] The Well-Beloved [1892 in serial form,1897 in book form] Jude the Obscure [1895]

  25. Short Story Collections Wessex Tales [1888] A Group of Noble Dames [1891] Life’s Little Ironies [1894]

  26. Poetry Collections The Photograph [1890] Wessex Poems and Other Verses [1898] Poems of the Past and Present [1901] The Man He Killed [1902] Times Laughing Stocks and Other Verses [1909] The Voice [1912]

  27. Poetry Collections Satires of Circumstance [1914] Moments of Vision [1917] Collected Poems [ 1919] Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses [1922] Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles [1925]

  28. Poetry Collections Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres [1928] The Complete Poems [1976] Selected Poems[1993] Hardy: Poems [1995] Thomas Hardy: Selected Poetry and Nonfictional Prose [1996] Selected Poems [1998] Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems [2001]

  29. Dramas The Dynasts Part 1[1904] The Dynasts Part 2 [1906] The Dynasts Part 3 [1908] The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse [1923]

  30. Philosophy of Life As flies to wanton boys Are we to the gods, They kill us for their sport King Lear Act IV Sc 1 35-37 Pessimistic view of life Life is to suffer at the hands of external forces “…happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain” Man a mere plaything of an impersonal and maligned fate

  31. Features of His Works • Accusing finger at destiny and taking sides with the protagonist • His plots hinges on Co-incidences and mischances • Close to nature, rural and country scenes • Characters are mostly ordinary men and women living close to the soil • Minor rustics offer pithy humour • Wessex finds a prominent place in his works

  32. THE END

  33. COMING NEXT Tess of the d’Urbervilles An Introduction

  34. Tess of d’Urbervilles A Novel by Thomas Hardy

  35. THANK YOU

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