Thomas Hardy

Satires of Circumstance Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was part of the English naturalist movement. Thomas Hardy was one of the great Victorian novelists - and also one of the great twentieth-century poets. He wrote classic accounts of the beauty of the countryside and the traditions of village life. A sample of the lyrics include In Front of the Landscape, Channel Firing, The Convergence of the Twain, The Ghost of the Past, After the Visit, To Meet, or Otherwise, and "When I set out for Lyonnesse". Some of the Satires of Circumstance include At Tea, In Church, By her Aunt's Grave, In the Room of the Bride-elect, At the Watering-place, In the Cemetery, and Outside the Window. A few of the miscellaneous pieces include The Wistful Lady, The Woman in the Rye, The Cheval-Glass, The Re-enactment, Her Secret, "She charged me", The Newcomer's Wife, and A Conversation at Dawn.