![]() ![]() His first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, written in 1867-68, was never published, and the manuscript did not survive except insofar as Hardy used parts of it in other books. He began to write poetry during this time, but none of it was published. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to an architect in Dorchester and remained in that profession, later in London and then again in Dorchester, for almost twenty years. He was also interested in music and learned to play the violin. Hardy's formal education consisted of only some eight years in local schools, but by the end of this period he had on his own read a good deal in English, French, and Latin, just as later in London he made his own rather careful study of painting and English poetry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hardy's Writing Style and Use of Quotationsīorn on June 2, 1840, in Upper Bockhampton, not far from Dorchester, in Dorsetshire, Thomas Hardy was the son of Thomas Hardy, a master mason or building contractor, and Jemima Hand, a woman of some literary interests.Symbolism and Irony in Jude the Obscure. ![]()
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