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A LITERARY LETTER: Our Twenty-one Years

... merely the insects. here is one exception, however, and I take some pride in the fact that Mr. Thomas Hardy contributed a poem to our first number. Mr. Hardy's genius had found expression through long years of the Victorian era as a master of prose, and ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1921
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1969 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... the opinions of the press upon Mr. Agnus's other works I find constant references to George Eliot, Mr. Thomas Hardy, and Mr. J. M. Barrie. Mr. Hardy's name is most frequently dragged in. It was dragged in by the Ou'iook, by Literature by the Athenceum ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1903
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2271 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Concerning the Poet Laureate

... with all fervour that I devoutly hope that it will be Mr. Thomas Hardy, upon whom the conferring of a degree of Cambridge the other day is a matter for rejoicing with all his ad mirers. Mr. Hardy is the doyen of English imaginative literature at the moment ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1913
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2193 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Aunt Sarah and the War

... on your shelves between your Hardy and your Balzac. So says The Daily Chronicle. The Sunday Times goes one better. The author, it says, shows something of the ability of Mr. Thomas Hardy. The ability of Mr. Thomas Hardy is an excellent ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1915
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2203 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

BEST SELLERS of the SEASON

... is a mission between heaven and earth, and so is the calling of the poor reviewer, though he gets no credit for it. Even Thomas Hardy, in a preface to his posthumous volume of poems, Winter Words, spoke of us as licensed tasters. What are we to do when ...

Published: Friday 23 November 1928
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1377 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... by the bushes of its own garden, as the birthplace of Thomas Hardy. One is sorry to learn, by the way, from Sir Frederick Treves that Kingston Russell 1 louse, the birthplace of Sir Thomas Hardy, Nelson's famous captain, and the house also in which Motley ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 1906
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2358 | Page: 16 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Chatter About Harriet

... ancillary to that aim merely. Thomas Hardy. In Under the Greenwood Tree Mr. Hardy has written So far as I am aware, there are no church string bands, similar to those herein described, left in Wessex at the present date. Thomas Hardy. ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2337 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

At the Sign of the Cinema

... might be anywhere in England, as seen through a producer's eyes. Of course, we know the story hails from Wessex, since Thomas Hardy wrote it, even if the Pro logue (admirably declaimed by an unnamed actor), did not make this clear. Yet the synopsis of ...

Published: Wednesday 16 October 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1603 | Page: 83 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... History oj Sir Richard Calmady. Mr Thomas Hardy may congratulate himself on the literature that his picturesque presentation of Wessex will have provided in the course of time. We have already two excellent books on Mr. Hardy's works and country, one by Mr ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2381 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER As

... twenty thousand dollars for anything so useless. H ere is the list of the forty English authors most favoured in America (1) Thomas Hardy (22) Maurice Hewlett (2) Rudyard Kipling (23) Augustine Birrell (3) H. G. Wells (24) Hugh Walpole (4) J. M. Barrie (25) ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1922
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6006 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review