Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset, England, on June 2, 1840. A fiction writer as well as a poet, he published eight collections of poetry, including "Poems of the Past and the Present" (Harper & Bros., ...

And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. These are the opening lines of the English poet Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the Twain,” which he wrote for a London benefit ...

Thomas Hardy died in 1928 and immediately precipitated a most tangled crisis, namely, how and where to inter him. Hardy’s will specified that he wished to be buried in Stinsford churchyard in his ...

No matter how much we grow, how old we become, or how many experiences we face, there is always a part of us that struggles ...