Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June, 1840 – 11 January, 1928) was a novelist and poet, generally regarded as among the greatest poets and novelists in English literature. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, is marked by imaginative poetic descriptions, and a foreboding sense of fatalism.

References

• The Oxford Companion to English Literature
• Thomas Hardy: A Biography, Michael Millgate, 1982, revised ed. 2004, O.U.P., ISBN 0199275653
• Thomas Hardy's Wessex, Hermann Lea (written with Hardy's assistance)