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Thomas Hardy – angielski pisarz i poeta, przedstawiciel nurtu naturalistycznego. Jego postaci literackie zmagają się ze swoimi pasjami i sytuacjami życiowymi. Utwory Hardy’ego, których akcja w większości rozgrywa się w półmitycznym hrabstwie Wessex, odznaczają się swoistymi poetyckimi opisami i nasyceniem fatalizmem.

Pochodził z klasy średniej; jego ojciec był architektem i zajmował się budowaniem kościołów z cegieł. Sam Thomas Hardy był zagorzałym ateistą.

Napisał m.in. powieści Far from the Madding Crowd , Tess of the d’Urbervilles , Jude the Obscure . Wydano też tomy jego wierszy Wessex Poems , Collected Poems i Human Shows . W swoich utworach kontrastował dwie rzeczywistości – miasta i wsi. Miasto utożsamiał ze złem, przestępczością, zatraceniem wartości. O wsi natomiast pisał z nostalgią, idealizując ją i przedstawiając jej idylliczne wizje. Opisywał społeczeństwo preindustrialne i dramat ludzi zmuszonych do migracji do miasta. Głównymi motywami jego powieści są losy tragicznych postaci próbujących przeciwstawić się przeznaczeniu. Bohaterowie są zdani na łaskę zewnętrznych sił oraz własnych żądz i natury. Nie mogą zmienić swojego losu w świecie rządzonym przez przypadek. Stać ich jednak na zachowanie godności, a nawet heroizm.

Hardy pisał też wiersze. Jest autorem tomu Wessex Poems and Other Verses. W 1910 został odznaczony przez króla Wielkiej Brytanii wyróżnieniem członka Order of Merit, dzięki czemu za jego imieniem i nazwiskiem figuruje skrótowiec OM.

Wiele jego powieści stało się podstawą znanych filmów, takich jak:



Z dala od zgiełku, 1967, reż. John Schlesinger

Tess, 1979, reż. Roman Polański

Więzy miłości, 1996, reż. Michael Winterbottom

Królowie życia, 2000, reż. Michael Winterbottom

Z dala od zgiełku, 2015, reż. Thomas Vinterberg Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Czerwiec 1840 – 11. Styczeń 1928
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Thomas Hardy słynne cytaty

„Przyjemnie jest słuchać, jak ten człowiek milczy.”

Thomas Hardy

„Żeby patrzeć w przyszłość, trzeba widzieć najgorsze…”

Thomas Hardy

„Często „nie” bywa tylko przedmową do „tak.””

Thomas Hardy

„Potrafię panią uszczęśliwić – mówił spoza krzaku wpatrzony w kark odwróconej od niego dziewczyny. – Za rok lub dwa miałaby pani pianino; teraz żony farmerów coraz częściej kupują sobie pianina, a jeszcze zacznę pilnie wprawiać się w grze na flecie, abyśmy wieczorami mogli grywać razem.
– Owszem, to by mi się podobało.
– Kupiłbym za dziesięć funtów taka lekka bryczuszkę do wyjazdu na targ; mielibyśmy ładne kwiaty i drób, to jest kury i koguty, gdyż uważam, że są pożyteczne – mówił lawirując pomiędzy poezją i prozą. – Bardzo by mi się to podobało.
–… i pod szkłem grządkę ogórków, jak prawdziwi państwo.
– Tak, tak…
– A po ślubie dalibyśmy do gazety ogłoszenie w rubryce matrymonialnej. – Ach, to byłoby wspaniale!
–… a w łóżeczkach dzieci, jedno w drugie sami chłopcy. A zaś w domu, przy ognisku, co spojrzę, to zobaczę panią, a pani, co spojrzy, to zobaczy mnie.
– Zaraz, zaraz, proszę być przyzwoitym.(…) Gabriel nie przestawał wpatrywać się w czerwone jagody głogu tak uporczywie, że w przyszłości dzika róża stała się dla niego niejako symbolem miłosnych oświadczyn.”

Thomas Hardy książka Far from the Madding Crowd

Źródło: Z dala od zgiełku (ang. Far from the Madding Crowd), tłum. Róża Czekańska-Heymanowa

Thomas Hardy: Cytaty po angielsku

“These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown
Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.”

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Hap http://www.poetry-online.org/hardy_hap.htm" (1866), lines 13-14, from Wessex Poems (1898)

“"Justice" was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess. And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength, they arose, joined hands again, and went on.”

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Thomas Hardy książka Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment, ch. LIX (last lines)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)

“For of all the miseries attaching to miserable love, the worst is the misery of thinking that the passion which is the cause of them all may cease.”

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Thomas Hardy książka A Pair of Blue Eyes

A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873), ch. 9

“So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman's shawl, to the churchyard that night, and buried by lantern-light, at the cost of a shilling and a pint of beer to the sexton, in that shabby corner of God's allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid.”

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Thomas Hardy książka Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Phase the Second: Maiden No More, ch. XIV
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)

“Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!”

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Thomas Hardy książka Jude the Obscure

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

“[Of a wedding:] And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assuredly believe, feel, and desire precisely as they had believed, felt, and desired during the few preceding weeks. What was as remarkable as the undertaking itself was the fact that nobody seemed at all surprised at what they swore.”

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Thomas Hardy książka Jude the Obscure

Pt. I, ch. IX
Jude the Obscure (1895)

“My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.”

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Thomas Hardy The Dynasts

Pt. II, sc. v, Spirit Sinister
The Dynasts (1904–1908)

“What of the Immanent Will and Its designs?
It works unconsciously, as heretofore,
Eternal artistries in Circumstance.”

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Thomas Hardy The Dynasts

Pt. I, forescene, Shade of the Earth & Spirit of the Years
The Dynasts (1904–1908)

“The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim. Who can say of a particular sea that it is old? Distilled by the sun, kneaded by the moon, it is renewed in a year, in a day, or in an hour. The sea changed, the fields changed, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained.”

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Thomas Hardy książka The Return of the Native

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

“All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands.”

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Thomas Hardy książka The Woodlanders

Źródło: The Woodlanders (1887), Ch. XIX

“And meadow rivulets overflow,
And drops on gate bars hang in a row,
And rooks in families homeward go,
And so do I.”

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"Weathers", lines 15-18

“The rural world was not ripe for him. A man should be only partially before his time—to be completely to the vanward in aspirations is fatal to fame. Had Philip's warlike son been intellectually so far ahead as to have attempted civilization without bloodshed, he would have been twice the godlike hero that he seemed, but nobody would have heard of an Alexander.”

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Thomas Hardy książka The Return of the Native

Bk. III, ch. 2
The Return of the Native (1878)

“Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat if met where any bar is,
Or help to half-a-crown.”

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" The Man He Killed http://www.illyria.com/hardyman.html" (1902), lines 17-20, from Time's Laughingstocks (1909)

“Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.”

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Thomas Hardy książka Far from the Madding Crowd

Źródło: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 1

“But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.”

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Thomas Hardy książka Jude the Obscure

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

“With all, the beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit; but with some natures utter elusion is the one special event which will make a passing love permanent for ever.”

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Desperate Remedies (1871), ch. 1

“You calculated how to be uncalculating, and are natural by art!”

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Thomas Hardy książka The Hand of Ethelberta

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), ch. 20

“A star looks down at me,
And says: "Here I and you
Stand each in our degree:
What do you mean to do,—
Mean to do?"”

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" Waiting Both http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/9302, lines 1-5, from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)

“In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.”

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"The Convergence of the Twain" (Lines on the loss of the Titanic) http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/916.html (1912), lines 1-3, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)

“When I set out for Lyonnesse,
A hundred miles away,
The rime was on the spray,
And starlight lit my lonesomeness.”

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" When I Set Out For Lyonnesse http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/2736" (1870), lines 1-4, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)

“It was at present a place perfectly accordant with man's nature—neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly; neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious in its swarthy monotony. As with some persons who have long lived apart, solitude seemed to look out of its countenance. It had a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities.”

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Thomas Hardy książka The Return of the Native

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

“A local cult, called Christianity.”

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Thomas Hardy The Dynasts

Pt. I, sc. vi, Spirit of the Years
The Dynasts (1904–1908)

“The sovereign brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red. To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement.”

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Thomas Hardy książka Far from the Madding Crowd

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

“They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined — just as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks the veldt around;
And foreign constellations west
Each night above his mound.

Young Hodge the Drummer never knew —
Fresh from his Wessex home —
The meaning of the broad Karoo,
The Bush, the dusty loam,
And why uprose to nightly view
Strange stars amid the gloam.

Yet portion of that unknown plain
Will Hodge forever be;
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow to some Southern tree,
And strange-eyed constellations reign
His stars eternally.”

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" Drummer Hodge http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/personal/pvm/HardyBWar/pracrit.html" (1899), lines 1-18, from Poems of the Past and Present (1901)

“The Earth, say'st thou? The Human race?
By Me created? Sad its lot?
Nay: I have no remembrance of such place:
Such world I fashioned not.”

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" God-Forgotten http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/16398", lines 4-8, from Poems of the Past and Present (1901)

“William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough,
Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's,
And the Squire, and Lady Susan, lie in Mellstock churchyard now!”

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" Friends Beyond http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/16393", lines 1-3, from Wessex Poems (1898)

“I leant upon a coppice gate
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 sought their household fires.”

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" The Darkling Thrush http://www.poetry-online.org/hardy_the_darkling_thrush.htm" (1900), lines 1-8, from Poems of the Past and Present (1901)

“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”

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Thomas Hardy książka The Hand of Ethelberta

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), ch. 9

“Here by the baring bough
Raking up leaves,
Often I ponder how
Springtime deceives,—
I, an old woman now,
Raking up leaves.”

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" Autumn in King's Hintock Park http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/poems/hardy2.html" (1901), lines 1-6, from Time's Laughingstocks (1909)

“Who is such a reprobate as I! And yet it seems that even I be in Somebody's hand!”

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Thomas Hardy książka The Mayor of Casterbridge

Źródło: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Ch. 41