... 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 ... between these different worlds, these contrasting attitudes of mind, and these opposing values, then individuals and societies might form complete and healthy wholes and human love might ...

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... 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 the belief in God, a...

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• Grade Level: High School

... 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 the belief in God, a...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School