![]() Ambitious and eager to make a name for himself in the crowded literary market, Hardy produced several novels in quick succession: Desperate Remedies (1871), Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), and A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873). ![]() \While poetry was Hardy’s first literary love-and would remain his true passion throughout his life-he quickly understood that prose represented a more likely means of making a living by writing. He therefore went to work instead, becoming an architect’s apprentice and later working as a draftsman in London to support himself. Hardy was a serious and dedicated student, but his family’s poverty meant that he could not afford to pursue postsecondary education. ![]() His father worked as a stonemason and provided his children with a modest and simple existence. Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in the countryside of Dorset, England, and was the first of four children. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |