Thomas Hardy--anyone read him?

[unojuno]

He is my favourite all-time author.  Has anyone read any of his works (Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure,etc., etc)?  Noone in my circle seems to appreciate his work (probably 'cos his prose is very Olde English), and noone seems to understand his language.  Am I his ONLY fan?

[crysdd]

He is my favourite all-time author.  Has anyone read any of his works (Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure,etc., etc)?  Noone in my circle seems to appreciate his work (probably 'cos his prose is very Olde English), and noone seems to understand his language.  Am I his ONLY fan?

Maybe you could look at it as....I'm his biggest fan! (I'm a "the glass is half full" kinda girl) lol.

[bschumacher]

I've read "Tess of the Durbervilles," "The Return of the Native," and "Tales of Wessex." Of the three, I liked "Tess" the best. Roman Polanski made a movie by that name, but the book is far better.

[michellemoore92]

he wrote The Darkling Thrush! my choir sang a piece with that poem my freshman year.
it was beautiful.

from memory! haha


I leant upon a coppice-gate
when frost was spectre grey
and winter's dregs made desolate
the weak'ning eye of day
the tangled vine-stems scorned the sky
like strings of broken lyres
and all mankind had haunted nigh
to set their household fires

the land's sharp features seemed to me
the century's corpse outleant
the crypt his cloudy canopy
the wind his death lament
the ancient pulse of germ and birth had shrunken hard and dry
and every spirit upon earth seemed frevorless as I

at once a voice outburst among the bleak twigs overhead
in a full-hearted evensong of joy illimited
an aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small
in blast-beruffled plume had chosen thus
to fling his soul upon the growing gloom

so little cause for suffering
across the ground
was written on terrestrial things
afar or nigh around
but I could think there trembled through
his happy good-night air
some blessed hope, whereof he knew
and I, I was unaware

[unojuno]

he wrote The Darkling Thrush! my choir sang a piece with that poem my freshman year.
it was beautiful.

from memory! haha :)YEAH!!  another Fan!!!!


I leant upon a coppice-gate
when frost was spectre grey
and winter's dregs made desolate
the weak'ning eye of day
the tangled vine-stems scorned the sky
like strings of broken lyres
and all mankind had haunted nigh
to set their household fires

the land's sharp features seemed to me
the century's corpse outleant
the crypt his cloudy canopy
the wind his death lament
the ancient pulse of germ and birth had shrunken hard and dry
and every spirit upon earth seemed frevorless as I

at once a voice outburst among the bleak twigs overhead
in a full-hearted evensong of joy illimited
an aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small
in blast-beruffled plume had chosen thus
to fling his soul upon the growing gloom

so little cause for suffering
across the ground
was written on terrestrial things
afar or nigh around
but I could think there trembled through
his happy good-night air
some blessed hope, whereof he knew
and I, I was unaware

[mom1976]

He is my favourite all-time author.  Has anyone read any of his works (Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure,etc., etc)?  Noone in my circle seems to appreciate his work (probably 'cos his prose is very Olde English), and noone seems to understand his language.  Am I his ONLY fan?

Maybe you could look at it as....I'm his biggest fan! (I'm a "the glass is half full" kinda girl) lol.

[vlsm23]

Havent read anything honestly.  Besides olde English what is the general idea of his work?  What does the majority of his works forcus on?