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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalThis book discusses Thomas Hardy as a novelist and a poet; his literary cunning, subject matter, themes, and philosophy. One familiar reading of Hardy as a pessimist writer is warranted by cataloguing his recurrent use of words such as fate, chance, time, pessimism, nature, and the cruelty of nature among others. Such responses are debatable, and one may say he invited the obvious. But the same proposition turns untenable for poems wherein the ideas are conveyed through tropes, symbols, and other poetic devices.
It is advisable that a new reader approaches Hardy’s poetry with this inclination. This book is an attempt to establish Hardy as one of those great writers who enjoys both an academic reputation of considerable vitality and a wide and enthusiastic following among the common readers of the world.
Manisha Gosai
Ms. Manisha Gosai works as an Assistant Professor of English at the Government Engineering College, Bhuj. She is currently conducting research work on Ramnarayan V Pathak, a major 20th century Gujarati literary critic. Her areas of interest are poetry, folk studies, translation studies, technical communication, and literary criticism.
