Thomas Hardy
Poem of the week: Self-Unconscious by Thomas Hardy
A curiously jaunty account of the bright life of nature a man misses while wrapped up in his plans
Carol Rumens
02, Jan, 2023 @10:59 AM
The Guardian view on the death of the Hardy Tree: a legend uprooted | Editorial
Editorial: An ash surrounded by gravestones in an ancient churchyard reveals humanity’s urge to tell its own stories through trees
Editorial
29, Dec, 2022 @6:25 PM
Reluctance to clean is not limited to men | Brief letters
Brief letters: Housework and gender | Navigational errors | Extraterrestrial researchers | Long reads book | Hardly hardy | Cartoon praise
28, Dec, 2022 @5:33 PM
Gravestone-encircled ‘Hardy Tree’ falls in London
The tree became a powerful symbol of life among death after the novelist and poet stacked gravestones around its base in the 1860s
John Sutherland and Kevin Rawlinson
27, Dec, 2022 @6:03 PM
Country diary: We rise and fall with the treecreepers outside
Yr Elenydd, Ceredigion: In a tiny chapel I sit among the devout, one eye on the window
Jim Perrin
14, Jun, 2022 @4:30 AM
The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry review – Thomas Hardy in mourning
A remarkable portrait of the remorse that followed a difficult marriage, and gave birth to great poetry
Alexandra Harris
12, May, 2022 @6:30 AM
Top 10 difficult marriages in fiction
Whether they induce schadenfreude or pangs of recognition, mismatched couples have inspired brilliant novels by authors from Evelyn Waugh to Jean Rhys
Elizabeth Lowry
06, Apr, 2022 @11:00 AM
And did those feet: 10 walks inspired by famous poets
Matching rich verse with great scenery, these strolls follow in the footsteps of some of our greatest wordsmiths, from William Blake to Carol Ann Duffy
Kevin Rushby
03, Mar, 2022 @7:00 AM
Top 10 Christmas poems | Allie Esiri
Poets from Thomas Hardy to TS Eliot and Wendy Cope articulate the wonder – and dread – of the festive season
Allie Esiri
22, Dec, 2021 @11:00 AM
The importance of using the right language | Letters
Letters: Kevin Harper on the need to use plain English, and Peter Branston on new language and Thomas Hardy
Letters
06, Oct, 2021 @4:59 PM
‘You think wrong!’: top 10 rants in literature
Some distrust kvetching in print, but writers from Shakespeare to Valerie Solanas show there’s nothing wrong with constructive – and even destructive – criticism
Lucy Ellmann
25, Aug, 2021 @11:00 AM
A bridge too far for the renaming game? | Brief letters
Brief letters: Teachers and coronavirus | Honours and Spike Milligan | Art quiz | World leaders | Severn Bridge
Letters
01, Jan, 2021 @5:26 PM
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