Thomas Hardy

Mark and Seamus discuss the life and work of Thomas Hardy, with its blend of bitterness of tenderness, its intense dramatisations of loss and grief, and its inversion of traditional tropes of love poetry to anticipate the attitudes of later 20th century writers. Further reading on Hardy in the LRB: Donald Davie https://lrb.me/daviehardypod Hugh Haughton https://lrb.me/haughtonhardypod Dinah Birch https://lrb.me/birchhardypod Patrick McGuiness https://lrb.me/mcguinesshardypod James Wood https://lrb.me/woodhardypod