Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy is an English poet and novelist. Hardy published nearly 20 novels in his life, including Tess of the D 'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, The Return of the Native and The Mayor of Casterbridge. Hardy/Kloc-0 was born in Dorset, England in 0/840./Kloc-0 began to engage in literary creation in 862./Kloc-0 published the novel The Return of the Native in 878, and189/Kloc-0 published Tess of the D 'Urbervilles./Kloc-0. The main works in his later years include three volumes of the poetic drama Kings. 19 10, Hardy won the English Literature Achievement Award. Hardy is a writer who spans two centuries. His early and middle works are mainly novels, which inherit and promote the Victorian literary tradition. In his later years, he developed English literature in the 20th century with his own poems. Hardy wrote eight poems, including 9 18 poems. In addition, there are many short stories and epic plays Kings with the general title of The Story of Wessex. Hardy's influence and evaluation Xu Zhimo: "Hardy is by no means an arbitrary pessimist, although he can't stop his indignation and frustration sometimes in his performance ... Hardy never gave up his determination to find a way out for his own thoughts and the future of mankind in the darkest moment. His realism, his so-called pessimism, is precisely his ideological loyalty and courage. " Virginia Woolf: "Hardy is the greatest tragedy master in English novels." Lawrence: "In the novel, Hardy sets the unpredictable and terrible action background of nature behind the protagonist's tiny actions, and puts the tiny moral system grasped and constructed by human consciousness into the huge, incomprehensible and unreasonable moral system of nature or life itself, which is beyond human consciousness." Wang Zuoliang's Selected English Poems: "Hardy is more simple and profound than the post-romanticism at that time, and his local temperament and traditional English artistic techniques make him completely different from the modernist poets who were popular in the western world at that time, such as Eliot. In fact, the latter was attacked by Hardy, and many people echoed it. However, time is a fair judge, and people increasingly see the inherent advantages of Hardy's poetry, while Eliot and others' dazzling techniques are out of date, so that some critics think that modernism is only a sideline, and Hardy represents the mainstream of English poetry. "