Rural Britain: Thomas Hardy - A Novel Approach

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  • Опубліковано 4 гру 2024

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  • @michaelwynne7513
    @michaelwynne7513 3 місяці тому +2

    The divinely creative Thomas Hardy: truly one of the towering greats gifted to the world.

  • @runosvowson7436
    @runosvowson7436 3 місяці тому +4

    Bewitched with Hardy for more than a decade ever since I read Far from the madding Crowd at college in 2011. What a personality

  • @TheRickie41
    @TheRickie41 8 місяців тому +4

    This is a precious documentary for a late beginner. I rediscover now in my later years and appreciate his work very much.

  • @archieleach575
    @archieleach575 Рік тому +8

    Thanks for this wonderful documentary on my favourite author.

  • @evanhaning1552
    @evanhaning1552 Місяць тому

    Wonderful video. I'm rereading some of his novels now. Just finished Return of the Native and have started The Woodlanders. I may reread Read next year (its been thirty!).

  • @donnamcardle8928
    @donnamcardle8928 Рік тому +3

    Love Thomas Hardy’s novels! This was a treat!

  • @jude175
    @jude175 Рік тому +5

    "Hardy was born in 1840". (1:46)
    "The couple were married in 1839". (3:07)

    • @Ponto-zv9vf
      @Ponto-zv9vf 8 днів тому

      They married in 1874, that is he and Emma.

  • @SenjiaMurtic
    @SenjiaMurtic 11 місяців тому +3

    Such feelings of coziness, I would love to visit Bosnia the country of my birth place after relocating as a refugee to the US.. I miss having all the seasons and country side farming.. That place is so pretty and reminds me of Velka Kladusa, BiH 🇧🇦

    • @Ponto-zv9vf
      @Ponto-zv9vf 8 днів тому

      Well do that. There is no war there now though the divisions between the Christians and Muslims remain.

  • @khalilkhalifa1853
    @khalilkhalifa1853 Рік тому +1

    Very wonderful doc indeed❤

  • @barbaragonzales4575
    @barbaragonzales4575 Рік тому +8

    Loving this series as a British expat living in Australia.reminds me that I still call Britain home ❤

    • @Ponto-zv9vf
      @Ponto-zv9vf 8 днів тому

      Maybe you should get on a plane and go back to your home.

  • @QHarefield
    @QHarefield Рік тому +2

    Thank you for that interesting docu. Can you say who produced the music, please? It was just right, I felt, and did not intrude, as far too much of such music can do!

  • @rhonataylor85
    @rhonataylor85 Рік тому +6

    My favourite writer - a true genius.

    • @aclark903
      @aclark903 Рік тому

      I’m with #Leavis- #Tolstoy & #Dostoevsky are smarter than poor Mr Hardy.

    • @silverghost5752
      @silverghost5752 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@aclark903Leavis. 😅😅😅Splenetic Cambridge Don venting his frustrations!

    • @silverghost5752
      @silverghost5752 10 місяців тому

      Absolutely. A great novelist and a great poet. Can't think of many of many English writers equally adept in both fiction and poetry.

    • @aclark903
      @aclark903 10 місяців тому

      @@silverghost5752 Hardy is too much of a pessimist to be truly great.

    • @silverghost5752
      @silverghost5752 10 місяців тому +1

      @@aclark903 I prefer Hardy's hardy pessimism to the jejune beef-and-ale optimism of many of his contemporaries.

  • @lumberpilot
    @lumberpilot Рік тому +3

    Life's Little Ironies is a collection of short stories he wrote -- not mentioned in the video.

    • @Ponto-zv9vf
      @Ponto-zv9vf 8 днів тому

      Well you have to be concise in those biographies.

  • @writerstable2105
    @writerstable2105 7 місяців тому

    Thanka for the video.❤from India

  • @Ponto-zv9vf
    @Ponto-zv9vf 8 днів тому

    The writers look so ordinary and plain. Nice cottage. Strange to advise the children not to marry when she married even if pregnancy forced her to it. I don't read novels, and poetry bores me, but I have to say this was a nice biography of Mr. Hardy. My view is that the individuals should be forgotten and not memorialized, but their works are their legacy. Thomas Hardy's siblings never married or had children, and died in the house Thomas had built for them. Thomas burnt a lot of his letters and anything he thought would tarnish his literary legacy.