Don't you thing "breast and brand" could mean "Body and soul" just that Hardy refused to used those words because they slightly religious, like he did not want to sound like Victorian poets who included religious lines in their poems?
Wessex was a Kingdom, in the first millenium, but fell first to the Vikings and then to the Normans, who dispensed with it in 1066. The area of what was Wessex, includes most of the South West of England, the counties Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Hardy used it as a way of writing about traditional England, without really identifying exactly were it was.
@@judithgunn3731 fascinating! I didn’t know this. Then why do modern people still identify the counties like Wessex when discussing travel things, or locations, etc?
@@ljooste I think most people in UK know it as a generic term for an area in the South West, although it has no legal definition, we still have Sussex in the South and Essex in the East.
“Thanks for your efforts” says it best.
thanks for your efforts❤
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Don't you thing "breast and brand" could mean "Body and soul" just that Hardy refused to used those words because they slightly religious, like he did not want to sound like Victorian poets who included religious lines in their poems?
Wessex is not a fictional county? It's a legitimate county and region within the United Kingdom??
Wessex was a Kingdom, in the first millenium, but fell first to the Vikings and then to the Normans, who dispensed with it in 1066. The area of what was Wessex, includes most of the South West of England, the counties Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Hardy used it as a way of writing about traditional England, without really identifying exactly were it was.
@@judithgunn3731 fascinating! I didn’t know this. Then why do modern people still identify the counties like Wessex when discussing travel things, or locations, etc?
@@ljooste I think most people in UK know it as a generic term for an area in the South West, although it has no legal definition, we still have Sussex in the South and Essex in the East.