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[Anonymous No.19250386]

a nyone else really into thomas hardy rn haha

[Anonymous No.19250393]

He hits all the right spots for me. The Mayor of Casterbridge made me feel so very many feels.

[Anonymous No.19250427]

>>19250393
>He hits all the right spots for me.
same

this is now a feels thread
https://youtu.be/wCCXiIA_n7I

[Anonymous No.19250649]

>>19250386
This book has stayed with me like few others have. I'm not sure what it is about the story, but Jude's tragedy was more heartbreaking to me than Sophocles.

[Anonymous No.19250666]

>>19250386
Far From the Madding Crowd is a favorite but other than that I am not much for Hardy.

[Anonymous No.19252037]

>>19250649
>This book has stayed with me like few others have
Same. Currently reading Far From the Madding Crowd, he's great at writing women lol

[Anonymous No.19252053]

Sue Bridehead in Jude
>At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women’s morals almost more than unbridled passion—the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man—was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened... it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.

[Anonymous No.19252104]

in Far From the Madding Crowd, Hardy describes Bathsheba as
>a woman who frequently appealed to her understanding for deliverance from her whims

a bit from his poems:

Leaves freeze to dun;
But friends can not turn cold
This season as of old
For him with none

[Anonymous No.19252259]

Brush not the bough for midnight scents
That come forth lingeringly,
And wake the same sweet sentiments
They breathed to you and me
When living seemed a laugh, and love
All it was said to be.

Within the common lamp-lit room
Prison my eyes and thought;
Let dingy details crudely loom,
Mechanic speech be wrought:
Too fragrant was Life's early bloom,
Too tart the fruit it brought!

[Anonymous No.19253225]

Should I get his poems?

[Anonymous No.19253232]

>>19253225
Powys:
>Not to value Hardy's poetry as highly as all but his very greatest prose is to betray oneself as having missed the full pregnancy of his bitter and lovely wisdom.

[Anonymous No.19253241]

>>19253232
This is correct.

[Anonymous No.19253266]

>>19250386
I prefer Thomas Hard R

[Anonymous No.19253648]

Far From the Maddening Crowd would have been perfect if all the parts not including Gabriel Oak were cut