Thomas Hardy: The writer and the poet

action admirable artistic beauty become beliefs called character chronicle play consciousness D'Urbervilles death desire Desperate Remedies drama Dynasts effect Egdon Egdon Heath emotion epic Ethelberta Eustacia existence experience expression feeling fiction figure give Greenwood Tree Hand of Ethelberta Hardy's Henchard human idea imagination Immanent irony Jude the Obscure Jude's kind living lyric Madding Crowd man's Mayor of Casterbridge means metaphysic mind modern mood Napoleon narrative Native nature never passion past perhaps philosophical phrase Pities play poem poet poet's poetic poetry present prose reader rhythm rustic Satires of Circumstance scene seems sense significance spirit Stancy stanza story symbolic T.S. Eliot Tess Tess's theme things Thomas Hardy thought tragedy tragic Trumpet-Major turn verse vision Wessex Heights Wessex Novels Wessex Tales whole Wildeve Winterborne woman Woodlanders words writing