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1840-1928. English novelist and poet. His
novels, set in rural `Wessex' (his native
West Country), portray intense human
relationships played out in a harshly
indifferent natural world. They include Far
From the Madding Crowd 1874, The Return of
the Native 1878, The Mayor of Casterbridge
1886, The Woodlanders 1887, Tess of the
D'Urbervilles 1891, and Jude the Obscure
1895. His poetry includes the Wessex Poems
1898, the blank-verse epic of the Napoleonic
Wars The Dynasts 1904-08, and several volumes
of lyrics. Born in Dorset, Hardy was trained
as an architect. His first success was Far
From the Madding Crowd. Tess of the
D'Urbervilles, subtitled `A Pure Woman',
outraged public opinion by portraying as its
heroine a woman who had been seduced. The
even greater outcry that followed Jude the
Obscure 1895 reinforced Hardy's decision to
confine himself to verse.