Hardy

Hardy, Thomas Grade Level:  9-12 This biographical entry about English novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy, is from the sixth edition of The Columbia Encyclopedia. The entry describes Hardy as "one of the great English writers of the 19th cent[ury]." Information about his two marriages, his study of Greek and Latin classics, and his work as an architect's apprentice can be found here. Most of the entry is devoted to a discussion of his works of literature and their major themes, settings, and characters. Topic: Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928 URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/ha/Hardy-Th.html Thomas Hardy Grade Level:  9-12 This encyclopedia entry in MSN Encarta gives biographical information about "English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement," Thomas Hardy. Hardy's family life, education and work as an architect's apprentice are covered in the entry. The article is divided into two sections that discuss the author's early works (novels) and later works (poetry and drama). A picture of Hardy is included in the Multimedia section near the top of the page. Information for citing the article is given at the bottom of the page. Topic: Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928 URL: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761570473/Thomas_Hardy.html Thomas Hardy's Wessex Grade Level:  9-12 The University of St. Andrews is host to this web site about Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Dr. Birgit Plietzsch describes the evolution of Wessex from a fictional location in Hardy's works to its development as a recognized region. In addition to this in-depth analysis, Plietzsch includes links to other web sites, printed resources and software about Hardy and his association with the region as well as maps and frontispieces from Hardy's books. Links to endnotes can be found throughout the text. Topic: Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928 URL: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~bp10/wessex/ Thomas Hardy Grade Level:  9-12 The Thomas Hardy Resource Library offers a wide variety of items from a thin timeline of his life and works, to audio files from Monty Python comedy sketches that refer to Hardy and his work. The Text section contains links to online texts, articles, reviews, and a complete bibliography. You can find pictures, audio files, and information about film adaptations of his work in the Media section, or explore Hardy's heritage in the Dorset section that provides maps of Hardy's home, a link to Hardy genealogy, and a link to Hardy's ale, known as "the rarest ale in Dorchester." Topic: Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928 URL: http://pages.ripco.net/~mws/hardy.html Thomas Hardy Grade Level:  9-12 Thirteen of English author Thomas Hardy's novels and one of his short stories (Squire Patrick's Lady) are published at the Classic Reader web site in unabridged format. In addition to the full-text of some of Hardy's most well-known works (Far From The Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Return of the Native, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles), a biography of Hardy from the Author's Calendar is included, as is a black-and-white picture of Hardy. Links to other material on the Classic Reader web site can be found on the left side of the page. Topic: Novelists, English URL: http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.23/ Thomas Hardy Grade Level:  9-12 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman Publishers, maintains a web complement to Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. The entry on Thomas Hardy observes, "Hardy has few equals in his combination of seriousness and skill, and has long been recognized as one of the very greatest of British novelists." The material is arranged under four main headings: Biography (Introduction, Early Years, Literary Career, and Legacy), Critical Archive (Critical Overview), Bibliography (Principal Works, Biography, and Selected Criticism), and Links. Topic: Novelists, English URL: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_kennedy_lfpd_9/0,9130,1489987-,00.html Thomas Hardy Grade Level:  9-12 Humanities Web comprises such resources as biographies, timelines, chronologies, images, electronic texts of primary sources, articles, and recommendations for further research and reading, all of which "show the interconnections, the web, the links, between history, the arts, and culture--and how each plays off and influences the others." The entry on English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy features an image, brief biography, chronology, quotations, and the complete text of a selection of his poems. According to Hardy, "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change." Topic: Poets, English URL: http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=i&ID=33 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Grade Level:  9-12 English novelist Thomas Hardy once noted, "My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own." This guide to Hardy includes links to six Guardian features, an image of Hardy, and a number of facts about the author arranged under such headings as "Critical verdict" ("Hardy himself classified his novels under three headings: 'novels of character and environment' such as Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 'romances and fantasies' such as The Trumpet Major and 'novels of ingenuity' such as A Laodicean"), "Now read on," and "Recommended biography." Topic: Novelists, English URL: http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,93218,00.html Wessex Poems and Other Verses Grade Level:  9-12 Bartleby.com has published the full-text of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Poems and Other Verses at their Great Books Online web site. Originally published in 1898, this version of the book contained 51 of Hardy's poems, all of which are represented here and can be accessed by clicking on their hyperlinked titles. In addition to the complete volume of poetry, Bartleby.com has included the bibliographic record to use in citing the source. Clicking on the author's name directly under the banner gives you access to biographical information about Hardy. Topic: Poetry URL: http://www.bartleby.com/121/index1.html Romanticism in Jude the Obscure Grade Level:  9-12 Jude the Obscure, one of Thomas Hardy's many novels, is the topic of this critical essay, which discusses the elements of Hardy's story that are influenced by the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the opposition between Romanticism and Darwinism. The essay includes a discussion of the Shelleyan aspects of Jude's character, along with detailed examples of Shelley's influence on the other main characters in Jude the Obscure. Also included is evidence that Hardy uses his novel to demonstrate his own interpretation of Shelley. Topic: Romanticism URL: http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/0498/0498jude.htm