O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea, And the woman riding high above with bright hair flapping free – The woman whom I loved so, and who loyally loved me. The pale mews ...

When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had ...

When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, "He was a ...

The novelist Thomas Hardy’s work often turned on portrayals of women who defied the conventions of their time. The women in his life were themselves remarkable.

The building had a stone plaque on its front wall, in the centre of the first floor, honouring Thomas Hardy. It stated the novelist and poet trained at the building as an apprentice architect to ...

Thomas Hardy was both a novelist and a poet. In the latter part of his life he tended to concentrate on poetry writing rather than prose but all his works have a poetic quality to them.

The Grade II listed building was where Thomas Hardy trained as an architect before becoming a novelist and poet. Hardy often used the beauty of rural Dorset as a backdrop for his romantic ...

Students at a school in Weymouth have taken part in a workshop learning more about the poetry of Thomas Hardy. Pupils in Year 8 at Wey Valley Academy were thrilled with a workshop delivered to ...

On 16th January 1928 the ashes of the poet and writer Thomas Hardy were buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, immediately to the north of the grave of Charles Dickens. But his heart is buried ...