Thomas hardy

Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenmentperiods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.
While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was muchbetter known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published asserials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and socialcircumstances.
Hardy's poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well-regarded as his novels and has had a significant influence over modern English poetry, especially after The Movementpoets of the 1950s and 1960s cited Hardy as a major figure.

Hardy publicó un total de catorce novelas. La acción de todas ellas se desarrolla en el campo inglés, en una región bautizada por elnovelista como Wessex y que es en realidad su Dorset natal. Cada ciudad de Wessex tiene su equivalencia real en la toponimia de Dorset; así, Oxford recibe en las novelas de Hardy el simbólico nombre deChristminster. En este mundo se producen todos los acontecimientos de sus obras, si bien la obra de Hardy desborda todo posible costumbrismo en tanto que ese paisaje resulta simbólico de un pensamiento muydefinido. Utiliza el dialecto de Dorset como ejemplo de inglés antiguo y noble en trance de desaparición por el destino de la modernidad.
La cosmovisión de Hardy es atea y de un radical y obsesivopesimismo, de invasora negrura. Sus personajes luchan una y otra vez contra un destino hostil; las mediatizaciones sociales y morales les extravían irremediablemente y, aunque hacen lo que pueden por...