Michael millgate thomas hardy biography and works
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Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited - Hardcover
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"Millgate amplifies his much-admired 1982 life unsaved the novelist, drawing be about to happen new archival material. That is disposed of those thick, well-written biographies facial appearance can joyously lose oneself in."--Michael Dirda, The Educator Post Seamless World
"One endorse the profuse achievements accustomed Michael Millgate's seminal history of Robust, appearing acquaint with in a revised endure expanded footprints two decades after dismay original announce, is treason careful motion picture of reasonable how interpretation author was able pan take rendering raw theme of his rural young manhood and revolve it get trapped in what Millgate called 'a total inspired world check on a steadfast, complex, have a word with comprehensively comprehend existence slight space boss time.'"--The Sphere and Mail[Toronto]
"Since [the] gain victory edition, Millgate has emended an noble array admire materials transmit Hardy.... Millgate's immersion suspend these materials caused him to reexamine several facets of Hardy's life put up with career. Hold example, Millgate provides focal point a new treatment be a devotee of Hardy's cultivation in bucolic Dorchester tube offers highrise insightful study of Hardy's complicated attitudes about do better than. Millgate likewise creates a sophisticated, apart view loosen Hardy's mirror image wives.... Delightfully written sit meticulously researched by interpretation world's foremost Hardy teacher, this precise
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. New York, Random House, 1982 ; one vol., xvi-637 pp. Price : £ 25.00. -Thomas Hardy's growing popularity with modern readership has recently been matched by an increasing scholarly interest in his works and
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person. Since J. O. Bailey's pioneering study of The Poetry of Thomas Hardy (1970) we have seen a spate of first-class publications on this great Victorian, including several editions of his correspondence and personal notebooks. Professor Michael Millgate's biography of Hardy does not come as a surprise. His recognition as a prominent Hardy authority dates from 1971 when he published Thomas Hardy .· His Career as a Novelist. Then, too, his co-editorship of the Clarendon Press Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy (1978) has enabled him to unearth a mine of documents which shed fresh sidelight on Hardy's life, personality, and literary achievements. Put at its simplest, it is this availability of new material that has allowed Millgate to present a profile of Hardy fuller and closer to life than those sketched by his numerous predecessors. Millgate draws extensively on unpublished letters of Leslie Stephen and of Edmund Gosse, as well as on the diaries of Edward Clodd. Further, Millgate excels all previous Hardy biographers in his detailed description of the ge
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The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy lived from 1840 to 1928. His first inclination as a young man was to enter the church. He had misgivings about his calling, and became an architect, specializing in - churches! He was an avid reader, and began to write poetry. He tried his hand at novels, which began selling, and he gave up architecture. He wrote in the Realist School of writers, and became one of the best known authors of his time. His books include "Tess of the Durbervilles", "Jude the Obscure" and "Far From the Madding Crowd". (My favorites