Thomas Hardy - Chapter & Verse: Poetry and prose together from literary greats.

Written by Thomas Hardy

Narrated by Alex Jennings, Richard Mitchley and Eve Karpf

Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life.

An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure.

In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem. In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything. But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle. Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another.

Story. Poems. Story. Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters. And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.

1 - Chapter & Verse - Thomas Hardy - An Introduction

2 - An Imaginative Woman by Thomas Hardy

3 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy

4 - The Mother Mourns by Thomas Hardy

5 - Rain on a Grave by Thomas Hardy

6 - The Dead Man Walking by Thomas Hardy

7 - Rome - Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy

8 - At the Royal Academy by Thomas Hardy

9 - In the Moonlight by Thomas Hardy

10 - The Seasons of Her Year by Thomas Hardy

11 - Birds at Winter Nightfall (Triolet) by Thomas Hardy

12 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

13 - The Calf by Thomas Hardy

14 - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy

15 - The Fiddler of the Reels by Thomas Hardy

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803541143

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English poet and author who grew up in the British countryside, a setting that was prominent in much of his work as the fictional region named Wessex. Abandoning hopes of an academic future, he began to compose poetry as a young man. After failed attempts of publication, he successfully turned to prose. His major works include Far from the Madding Crowd(1874), Tess of the D’Urbervilles(1891) and Jude the Obscure( 1895), after which he returned to exclusively writing poetry.