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GOD'S UNDERTAKER.
One Sunday morning in the middle of the nineteenth century, at a church in the Dorset village of Stinsford, a boy named Thomas Hardy had an experience that, more than sixty years later, he remembered as causing him "much mental distress." As the boy watched the priest deliver the sermon, Hardy recalled in his autobiography, "some mischievous movement of his mind set him imagining that the vicar was preaching mockingly, and he began trying to trace a humorous twitch in the corners of Mr. S--'s mouth, as if he could hardly keep a serious countenance. Once having imagined this the impish boy found to his consternation that he could not dismiss the idea."
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- Works of Thomas Hardy: Bibliography And Guide To Research On Thomas Hardy
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Hardy, Thomas January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Bibliography And Guide To Research On Thomas Hardy Text Hardy published many of his...two volumes: The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891 (1928) and The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928 (1930). These...
- Thomas Hardy.
- Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry Morgan, Rosemarie September 22, 2003 700+ words
...Typical was Lascelles Abercrombie, Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study. (London...there was Henry Charles Duffin, Thomas Hardy: A Study of the Wessex Novels...often as not it was just plain old Thomas Hardy, as published by numerous authors...
- Thomas Hardy.(Guide to the Year's Work)
- Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry Morgan, Rosemarie September 22, 2006 700+ words
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- Hardy's "The Impercipient."(Thomas Hardy)(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: The Explicator Person, James January 1, 2003 700+ words
...we. A stable interpertation of Thomas Hardy's "The Impercipient" (1...Bailey's monumental The Poetry of Thomas Hardy: A Handbook and Commentary (1970...we know of them. NOTES (1.) Thomas Hardy, "The Impercipient," Wessex...
- Thomas Hardy & American poetry.
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Yezzi, David December 1, 1999 700+ words
...I, too, alertly go?-- --Thomas Hardy, "The Haunter" A few months after Thomas Hardy's death in 1928, and only weeks...answered: `Why, of course, Thomas Hardy?" Gosse pronounced the top spot...
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- Magazine article from: New Criterion Meyers, Jeffrey September 1, 2002 700+ words
...for any word or deed. The aged Thomas Hardy had "the proper touch." His...brilliantly idiosyncratic "Study of Thomas Hardy" the following year, and Lascelles...sensitive art of ... Hardy." In Thomas Hardy and British Poetry (1972), Donald...
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- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Armstrong, Tim October 1, 2004 700+ words
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- Works of Thomas Hardy: Introduction
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Hardy, Thomas January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Science, New York University Introduction Life Of Thomas Hardy: Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840 in the small village of...years; one ancestor of the novelist, Captain Sir Thomas Hardy (1760-1839), was a famous British naval commander...