... as he grew older. Their marriage was a very unhappy one, partly due to their lack of children. She also did not approve of some of his novels, in particular Jude the Obscure. Emma Hardy especially disliked the anti-religious views expressed in Jude the Obscure. Emma saw Hardy's work as irreligious and overly pessimistic. Soon after her death Hardy found two manuscripts entitled &apos ... ;The Pleasures of Heaven and the Pains of Hell,' and 'What I think of my Husband.' Upon reading these, Hardy destroyed them. These writings, along with Emma's death inspired Hardy to create some of ...

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... Hardy. His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him the explorer of the transition of lives and minds from the age of traditional values and religious certainties to the age of godlessness and modern tragedy, a transition sometimes described as 'the clash of the modern'. After the hostile reception of his tragic and bitter novel Jude the Obscure in 1895, he devoted himself largely to poetry and poetic drama ... until his death in 1928. In 1898 he published his Wessex Poems, verse that he had written over the previous thirty years. His poems are largely traditional in theme .....

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... architect and he worked in London and Dorset for ten years. Hardy began his writing career as a novelist and was soon successful enough to leave the field of architecture for writing. His novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, received negative reviews upon publication and Hardy was criticized for being too occupied with sex. He left fiction writing for poetry, and published eight ... books of poetry, including Wessex Poems. In his poetry Hardy captures human loss and sorrow. Hardy's poetry usually explores the negative outlook of fate against. He rejected ... ...

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... architect and he worked in London and Dorset for ten years. Hardy began his writing career as a novelist and was soon successful enough to leave the field of architecture for writing. His novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, received negative reviews upon publication and Hardy was criticized for being too occupied with sex. He left fiction writing for poetry, and published eight ... books of poetry, including Wessex Poems. In his poetry Hardy captures human loss and sorrow. Hardy's poetry usually explores the negative outlook of fate against. He rejected ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School