Mr Keating will discuss his book Thomas Hardy: 10 Lovers, 50 Poems at Waterstones in Dorchester on Thursday, November 6, from ...

Former slogan: The breakfast of champions. Hardy’s rewrite: The rum-laced porridge you eat before auctioning off your wife and child. Former slogan: When you’re here, you’re family. Hardy’s rewrite: ...

The Great War in Europe devastated towns and villages, obliterated irreplaceable architecture, and destroyed an entire generation of young men. The survivors were conscious of living in a shattered ...

HARDY IN AMERICA (321 pp.)—Carl J. Weber—Colby College Press ($5). Thomas Hardy never set foot on U.S. soil, doubtless never dreamed of a special immortality in the state of Maine. But Colby College, ...

And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. These are the opening lines of the English poet Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the Twain,” which he wrote for a London benefit ...

In the summer of 1926, Thomas Hardy was visited at his house in Dorset by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, she being "the daughter of his old editor Leslie Stephen." Hardy, Claire Tomalin reports in this ...