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Thomas Hardy, né le 2 juin 1840, mort le 11 janvier 1928, est un poète et écrivain britannique appartenant au courant naturaliste. Auteur devenu aujourd'hui classique, il a tout particulièrement influencé D. H. Lawrence. Il a reçu l'ordre du Mérite en 1910.

Il se considérait lui-même d'abord comme un poète, n'écrivant des romans que pour gagner sa vie. La majorité de son œuvre, qui se déroule essentiellement dans la région fictive du Wessex , dépeint des personnages en lutte contre leurs passions et les circonstances. Sa poésie, publiée après ses cinquante ans, est jugée d'une qualité égale à ses romans, surtout depuis sa relecture par un groupe d'écrivains anglais, The Movement , dans les années 1950 et 1960. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. juin 1840 – 11. janvier 1928
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“The thought of Pascal’s was brought home to him: “A mesure qu‘on a plus d’esprit, on trouve qu’il y a plus d’hommes originaux. Les gens du commun ne trouvent pas de différence entre les hommes.”

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Pourquoi ne m'avez-vous pas dit qu'il y avait du danger avec les hommes?"
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Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“La femme n'étonne jamais autant son compagnon que par cette étrange capacité qu'elle possède de croire en des cajoleries qu'elle sait fausses - sauf, à dire vrai, quand elle se montre ouvertement sceptique vis-à-vis de remarques qu'elle sait être vraies.”

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“Le charme principal, l’unique charme peut-être du visage de la jeune femme était sa mobilité. Quand elle baissait les yeux pour regarder l’enfant, elle devenait jolie et même belle, d’autant que les fauves rayons du couchant, en frappant alors obliquement ses traits, mettaient des transparences délicates sur ses paupières et ses narines, et une flamme sur ses lèvres. Quand, au contraire, elle marchait dans l’ombre de la haie, toute à sa rêverie silencieuse, elle prenait l’expression passive et figée de ceux qui attendent tout du Temps et du Destin, tout sauf un peu de justice. Le premier aspect était l’œuvre de la Nature, le second celui de la civilisation, sans doute.”

Thomas Hardy livre Le Maire de Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy: Citations en anglais

“If all hearts were open and all desires known — as they would be if people showed their souls — how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!”

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Diary entry (18 August 1908), quoted in The Later Years of Thomas Hardy (1930), by Florence Emily Hardy, ch. 10, p. 133

“When false things are brought low,
And swift things have grown slow,
Feigning like froth shall go,
Faith be for aye.”

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" Between Us Now, http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/between-us-now/" lines 21-24, from Poems of the Past and Present (1901)

“That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the Judgement Day.”

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" Channel Firing http://www.love-poems.me.uk/hardy_channel_firing.htm" (1914), lines 1-4, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)

“In fact, precisely at this transitional point of its nightly roll into darkness the great and particular glory of the Egdon waste began, and nobody could be said to understand the heath who had not been there at such a time. It could best be felt when it could not clearly be seen, its complete effect and explanation lying in this and the succeeding hours before the next dawn; then, and only then, did it tell its true tale.”

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Thomas Hardy livre The Return of the Native

Bk. I, ch. 1
The Return of the Native (1878)

“If you are cheerful, and wish to remain so, leave the study of astronomy alone. Of all the sciences, it alone deserves the character of the terrible.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Two on a Tower

Two on a Tower (1882), vol 1, ch. 4 (Swithin St Cleeve speaking to Viviette Constantine)

“Whence comes solace? Not from seeing,
What is doing, suffering, being;
Not from noting Life’s conditions,
Not from heeding Time’s monitions;
But in cleaving to the Dream
And in gazing at the Gleam
Whereby gray things golden seem.”

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" On a Fine Morning http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/16443" (1899), lines 1-7, from Poems of the Past and Present (1901)

“Twas a little one-eyed, blinking sort o' place.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Phase the First: The Maiden, ch. I
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)

“Why doth IT so and so, and ever so,
This viewless, voiceless Turner of the Wheel?”

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Thomas Hardy The Dynasts

Pt. I, forescene, Spirit of the Pities
The Dynasts (1904–1908)

“Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Phase the Third: The Rally, ch. XVIII
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)

“I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through time to times anon,
And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.”

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Heredity http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1007/, lines 1-6, from Moments of Vision (1917)

“This is the weather the shepherd shuns,
And so do I.”

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" Weathers http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/2735, lines 10-11, from Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922)

“That Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae be not told of my death, or made to grieve on account of me. And that I be not bury'd in consecrated ground. And that no sexton be asked to toll the bell. And that nobody is wished to see my dead body. And that no murners walk behind me at my funeral. And that no flours be planted on my grave. And that no man remember me.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Le Maire de Casterbridge

Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Ch. 45 (Henchard's will)

“Ere systemed suns were globed and lit
The slaughters of the race were writ.”

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Thomas Hardy The Dynasts

Pt. II, sc. v, Semichorus I
The Dynasts (1904–1908)

“To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction — every kind of evidence in the logician's list — have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 2

“Done because we are too menny.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Jude the Obscure

Pt. VI, ch. II
Jude the Obscure (1895)

“To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience”

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Desperate Remedies (1871), ch. 1

“Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Jude the Obscure

Pt. IV, ch. V
Jude the Obscure (1895)

“An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.”

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"The Darkling Thrush", lines 21-32

“Few people seem to perceive fully as yet that the most far-reaching consequence of the establishment of the common origin of all species is ethical; that it logically involved a readjustment of altruistic morals, by enlarging, as a necessity of rightness, the application of what has been called the 'Golden Rule' from the area of mere mankind to that of the whole animal kingdom. Possibly Darwin himself did not quite perceive it. While man was deemed to be a creation apart from all other creations, a secondary or tertiary morality was considered good enough to practise towards the 'inferior' races; but no person who reasons nowadays can escape the trying conclusion that this is not maintainable. And though we may not at present see how the principle of equal justice all round is to be carried out in it entirety, I recognize that the League is grappling with the question.”

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Letter to the Humanitarian League (1910)

“Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far From The Madding Crowd

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