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| - | :''"We must remember the 'underground' of the [[ballad]] singer and the [[fairground]] which handed on traditions to the nineteenth century (to the [[music hall]], or [[Charles Dickens|Dickens]]' circus folk or [[Thomas Hardy|Hardy]]'s pedlars and showmen); for in these ways the 'inarticulate' [masses of people] ''conserve certain values - a spontaneity and capacity for enjoyment and mutual loyalties - despite the inhibiting pressures of magistrates, mill-owners, and [[Methodism|Methodists]]."'' --[[E.P. Thompson]] in 1963, in his ''The Making of the [[England|English]] [[Working class|Working Class]]' | + | :"We must remember the 'underground' of the [[ballad]] singer and the [[fairground]] which handed on traditions to the nineteenth century (to the [[music hall]], or [[Charles Dickens|Dickens]]' circus folk or [[Thomas Hardy|Hardy]]'s pedlars and showmen); for in these ways the 'inarticulate' [masses of people] ''conserve certain values - a spontaneity and capacity for enjoyment and mutual loyalties - despite the inhibiting pressures of magistrates, mill-owners, and [[Methodism|Methodists]]."'' --[[E.P. Thompson]] in 1963, in his ''The Making of the [[England|English]] [[Working class|Working Class]]' |
| '''Thomas Hardy, [[Order of Merit|OM]]''' ([[2 June]], [[1840]] – [[11 January]], [[1928]]) was an [[England|English]] [[novelist]], [[short story]] writer, and [[poet]] of the [[naturalism (literature)|naturalist]] movement. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of [[Thomas Hardy's Wessex|Wessex]], delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after [[the Movement|the 1960s Movement]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007] | '''Thomas Hardy, [[Order of Merit|OM]]''' ([[2 June]], [[1840]] – [[11 January]], [[1928]]) was an [[England|English]] [[novelist]], [[short story]] writer, and [[poet]] of the [[naturalism (literature)|naturalist]] movement. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of [[Thomas Hardy's Wessex|Wessex]], delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after [[the Movement|the 1960s Movement]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007] | ||
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- "We must remember the 'underground' of the ballad singer and the fairground which handed on traditions to the nineteenth century (to the music hall, or Dickens' circus folk or Hardy's pedlars and showmen); for in these ways the 'inarticulate' [masses of people] conserve certain values - a spontaneity and capacity for enjoyment and mutual loyalties - despite the inhibiting pressures of magistrates, mill-owners, and Methodists." --E.P. Thompson in 1963, in his The Making of the English Working Class'
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June, 1840 – 11 January, 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after the 1960s Movement.[1] [May 2007]
