Thomas Hardy
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English novelist and poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.
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What Are Thomas Hardy's Academic Contributions?
Thomas Hardy has made the following academic contributions:
- Under the Greenwood Tree
- Two on a Tower
- The Woodlanders
- The Well-Beloved
- The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
- The Fiddler of the Reels
- Jude the Obscure
- Desperate Remedies
- A Pair of Blue Eyes
- The Trumpet-Major
- The Spectre of the Real
- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- The Grave by the Handpost
- The Doctor's Legend
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- A Laodicean