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New Thomas Hardy book on his 'problematic' marriage
by Joanna O'Donnell
Assistant editor Dorset Echo
The famed Dorset author, whose birthplace was in Higher Bockhampton and later lived at Max Gate in Dorchester, referred to his marriage to Emma Gifford in many of his writings.
Author Andrew Norman takes a closer look at Hardy's poems in his new book Thomas Hardy and the Death of Emma.
In his early poems, the names of several locations in North Cornwall are mentioned, this being the very same place which featured in Hardy’s courtship of Emma Gifford, who was to become his first wife.
In many of his poems, Hardy referred to a certain romantic courtship, a marriage which became progressively more problematical, and finally to a bereavement in which a man loses his wife.
Former Dorset GP Mr Norman discovers what these writings reveal about the couple's marriage, asking 'why was Hardy so inconsolable when Emma died, given that the couple had become virtually estranged?'
He uses his background in medicine to gain insight into fathoming the depth’s of Hardy’s mindset as a bereaved person.
He said: "The poems raise certain questions.
"Given that Hardy and Emma gradually drifted apart so that in the end they lived mainly separate liv
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Thomas Hardy
English novelist and poet (1840–1928)
For other uses, see Thomas Hardy (disambiguation).
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth.[1] He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin.[2]
Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances, and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Ang