哈代英文简介

Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, he was also influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially by William Wordsworth.Charles Dickens is another important influence on Thomas Hardy.Like Dickens, he was also highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focussed more on a declining rural society.While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life, and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially therefore he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). However, since the 1950s Hardy has been recognized as a major poet, and had a significant influence on The Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Phillip Larkin and Elizabeth Jennings.The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. Hardy's Wessex is based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom and eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire, and much of Berkshire, in south west England.

Hardy 源自：古德语音译：哈代 性别：男子名涵意 : 勇敢,且人格高尚之人。英国有一位极有名的小说家叫 Thomas Hardy。哈代 (1840-1928) 英国小说家和诗人。乡村石匠和建筑工人之子，在开始写诗和散文以前曾从事建筑工作。从他的第二部小说《绿林荫下》(1872)开始，他的许多小说都是以假想的英国韦塞克斯郡为背景。《远离尘嚣》(1874)是哈代第一部成功之作，其后的《还乡》(1878)、《卡斯特桥市长》(1886)、《林地居民》(1887)、《德伯家的苔丝》(1891)以及《无名的裘德》(1895)，全都表达了作者斯多伊葛式的悲观论及他对生命悲剧不可避免的认识。这些作品持续受到欢迎(大多已被拍成电影)，主要是由于丰富多样但容易理解的风格和它们综合了浪漫的情节和有说服力的人物。哈代的作品渐渐开始与维多利亚时代的道德观念发生冲突，《无名的裘德》激起的公众的愤怒使得他十分厌恶，从此他不再写小说。后转而写诗，先后出版了《韦塞克斯诗集》(1898)、《今昔诗篇》(1901)和有关拿破仑战争的长篇诗剧《列王》(1910)。