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1 Good Morning

2 THIS SEMESTER Fiction II Unit IV Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles

3 THIS CLASS Thomas Hardy An Introduction

4 Thomas Hardy An Introduction  Life  Time  Works

5 Life  Birth  Education  Career  Marriage  Achievements  Death

6 Birth The Hardy Birthplace Marker The marker is situated just behind the Higher Bockhampton thatched cottage. cottage Photograph 2002 by Philip V. AllinghamPhilip V. Allingham Date of Birth: 2nd June 1840 Tuesday, 8.00am Place of Birth: Stinsford, Dorchester, Dorset, England Father: Thomas Mother: Jemima

7 Education  Mother educated him till his age of eight  First school at Bockhampton at age eight  For several years he attended a school run by a Mr Last  Learnt Latin and Greek there  In 1862 enrolled at King’s College, London

8 Career  Architect  Writer

9 Architect  Joined Hicks, an architect, as an apprentice  Won Prizes from Royal Institute Of British Architects and the Architectural Association

10 Writer  The Poor Man and the Lady his first novel turned down by publishers  Desperate Remedies his first published novel  Wrote novels, short stories, poems and drama  Stopped writing novels after the publication of Jude the Obscure

11 Marriage  Marries Emma Gifford in 1874  Emma dies in 1912  Marries Florence Dugdale in 1914

12 Achievements  Becomes Grand Old Man of English Letters  Won Order of Merit  Won several degrees of honour

13 Death  On 11 th January 1928, Wednesday just after 9.00 p.m. he passed away  His heart was buried at Stinsford  His ashes were buried in Westminster Abbey

14 Time  Victorian Age  Victorian Literature  Victorian Writers

15 Victorian Age  Period between 1832 and 1901  From the Passage of the First Reform Bill to the Death of Queen Victoria  Early Victorian Age 1832-1848  Mid-Victorian Age 1848-1870  Late Victorian Age 1870-1901

16 Victorian Literature Prose or Verse the literature of the age reflected the pressing issues of the age such as: Prose or Verse the literature of the age reflected the pressing issues of the age such as:  Social  Economic  Religious  Intellectual

17 Victorian Writers Poets  Tennyson  Robert Browning  Elizabeth Barrett Browning  Christina Rossetti  Matthew Arnold  G. M. Hopkins

18 Victorian Writers Essayists  Thomas Carlyle  John Ruskin  Arnold  Walter Pater

19 Victorian Writers Novelists  Bronte Sisters  Charles Dickens  William Makepeace Thackeray  Elizabeth Gaskell  George Eliot  George Meredith  Anthony Trollope  Thomas Hardy  Samuel Butler

20 Works  List of Works  Philosophy of Life  Features of his works

21 List of Works  Novels  Short Story Collections  Poetry Collections  Dramas

22 Novels  The Poor Man and the Lady [1867 Unpublished]  Desperate Remedies [1871]  Under the Greenwood Tree [1872]  A Pair of Blue Eyes [1873]

23 Novels  Far From the Madding Crowd [1874]  The Hand of Ethelberta [1876]  The Return of the Native [1878]  The Trumpet-Major [1880]  A Laodicean [1881]

24 Novels  Two on a Tower [1882]  The Mayor of Casterbridge [1886]  The Woodlanders [1887]  The Well-Beloved [1892 in serial form,1897 in book form]  Jude the Obscure [1895]

25 Short Story Collections  Wessex Tales [1888]  A Group of Noble Dames [1891]  Life’s Little Ironies [1894]

26 Poetry Collections  The Photograph [1890]  Wessex Poems and Other Verses [1898]  Poems of the Past and Present [1901]  The Man He Killed [1902]  Times Laughing Stocks and Other Verses [1909]  The Voice [1912]

27 Poetry Collections  Satires of Circumstance [1914]  Moments of Vision [1917]  Collected Poems [1919]  Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses [1922]  Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles [1925]

28 Poetry Collections  Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres [1928]  The Complete Poems [1976]  Selected Poems[1993]  Hardy: Poems [1995]  Thomas Hardy: Selected Poetry and Nonfictional Prose [1996]  Selected Poems [1998]  Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems [2001]

29 Dramas  The Dynasts Part 1[1904]  The Dynasts Part 2 [1906]  The Dynasts Part 3 [1908]  The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse [1923] Tintagel in Lyonnesse [1923]

30 Philosophy of Life  Pessimistic view of life  Life is to suffer at the hands of external forces  “…happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain”  Man a mere plaything of an impersonal and maligned fate As flies to wanton boys Are we to the gods, They kill us for their sport King Lear Act IV Sc 1 35-37

31 Features of His Works  Accusing finger at destiny and taking sides with the protagonist  His plots hinges on Co-incidences and mischances  Close to nature, rural and country scenes  Characters are mostly ordinary men and women living close to the soil  Minor rustics offer pithy humour  Wessex finds a prominent place in his works

32 THE END

33 COMING NEXT Tess of the d’Urbervilles An Introduction

34 Tess of d’Urbervilles A Novel by Thomas Hardy

35 THANK YOU


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