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A LITERARY LETTER: The D.N.B

... 20, 1920. I cannot resist giving here for the benefit of admirers of Mr. Thomas Hardy, great novelist and fine poet, another example of his versatility. Unlike most men, Mr. Hardy is a prophet in his own country, revered by every one in the county in which ...

Published: Saturday 25 December 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2178 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... however, that they secure a compensation which cannot be measured by money. Such writers as Mr. George Meredith and Mr. Thomas Hardy are sure of a veneration among those who know which is never for a moment likely to be given to the creators of Captain ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1905
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2138 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... carved oak table, which bears the names of the subscribers, who included Mr. Herbert Spencer, Mr. George Mere dith; Mr. Thomas Hardy, Anthony Hope and his father, the Rev. E. C. Hawkins, Canon Isaac Taylor, Mrs. W. I ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2149 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

MRS. HUMPHRY WARD: The Famous Victorian Novelist

... Robert Elsmere cer tainly marks an epoch. Some of the great Victorians who survive were not preachers, but artists, Mr. Thomas Hardy and Mr. Austin Dobson, for example. Mrs. Humphry Ward was the last survivor of an age of preachers. It was the note of ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 844 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... novel ist of his time, Thomas Hardy has had remarkably few disciples. The name of Mr. Eden Phill potts occurs to the mind at once, but I cannot think of many others, even among the rising school of rural novelists, who have adopted Hardy's method of approach ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1031 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

REVIEWS: SHORTER NOTICES OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS

... England. Written with a deep sympathy it paints a vivid picture of life in moribund Imperial Russia. The Landscapes of Thomas Hardy, by Donald Maxwell. (Cassell. 12s. 6d. net.) This charming series of Wessex scenes, each of which has direct associations ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1041 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

THE LIBRARY: Mr. Meredith--Ætat 80

... the bold re minder that George Meredith is eighty, and alive in the flesh, as well as in the spirit. Linked with that of Thomas Hardy, his name stands for what is grandest in modern English fiction. As his great Victorian predecessors live by their power ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1908
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 978 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Essays of Llewelyn Powys

... the flashes of insight which cover the little paper upon Thomas Hardy and his genius but Mr. Powys is better as an interpreter than as a historian. It is not quite true to say that Thomas Hardy was the son of a Dorset workman. His father was a yeoman ...

Published: Saturday 22 November 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3341 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... by 11 The Sphere will be found on the second page of this issue. MRS. HARDY, THE MOTHER OF MR. THOMAS HARDY, THE FAMOUS NOVELIST From an oil painting by her'daughter Miss Mary Hardy ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1904
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2473 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... for one feel for the memory of Lionel Johnson. His bo ik on Thomas Hardy, for ex ample, was I he outcome of a fine critical judgment which made him recognise how really great a novelist Mr. Hardy is, how high a place he must ultimately take in English literature ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1902
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2423 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A PEASANT POET

... the scar We that look on TV/Tr. Eden Phillpotts's new novel, Old Delabole, just issued by Mr. Heinemann, is dedicated To THOMAS HARDY In Honour of his Unapproachable Art and With Affection for his Most Approachable Self. A/T r. W. H. Macdonald has just ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1915
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2415 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review