Documentary exploring the life of author, Thomas Hardy, whose remains are buried in Poets Corner at Westminster Abbey and his heart in his first wife's grave, Emma Gifford.
My daughter came home from school talking about enjoying Shakespeare so I introduced her to Thomas Hardy and it was lovely today letting my 12 year old daughter read my original Thomas Hardy collection of poems aloud today at the dinner table, then we looked this up on utube very enjoyable thank you for making this documentary 👍
The narrator totally ignores the fact that that Women's emancipation was established when Hardy wrote these so called 'risky' as if Hardy was some sole pioneer of a new take on women. The Women's emancipation had started in the US IN 1848 and came to Europe shortly after. They needed to no help from male writers to feel freed of old restrictions...Old photos show women walking in the streets unaccompanied . Women openly had lovers and so on. Men like Hardy, frequently used their wives...then dumped them emotionally . Gainsborough did the same.
that is Griff Rhys Jones - a well loved British comedian , he used to partner with Mel Smith - their show Smith and Jones was very popular - sadly Mel Smith died too young
Mars colony #14, 2036. Young man sitting in a transparent geodesic dome looking out across the red desert sunset, slowly turning the pages of Hardy's 'Far From the Madding Crowd' and trying to imagine what life and love were like on Earth before the exodus. The overarching trees rustling in a Spring breeze, water gurgling in a stream, animal eyes peeking out of the foliage and a happy milkmaid humming to herself as she traipses to the milking shed, her breast alight with expectations of love in the new year.
@@fahds2583 You are sooo right! I am such an interesting person to know! Ha ha - joke. I do so love Thomas Hardy stories and have read just about all of them and some twice and even three times. If it were 100 years I would attempt to write a novel like his - with a quirky and doomed love affair taking place in a pastoral town in England in 1820. Instead I wrote a novel about being battling against tyranny in the out of body state; my book 'In Pluto's Shadow' by my pseudonym Dagaan Galakticos on Amazon. You can hear my 'interesting person' musical compositions on my YT site in videos. And what is your interest in Thomas Hardy Fahd?
Sounds to me like genuine sexual frustration and being deeply unfulfilled. Cruelly manipulated, and very possibly emotionally broken and unavailable as a result of maternal control. Workaholics, are the ultimate shut down addicts. So poor Emma was doomed from the get go and thus, Thomas’s mother was the victor. Ironic, that he wrote of love, hypocrisy etc yet he couldn’t open up himself. Such a great shame. 😐😎
"... she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in the general drama of pain". The Mayor of Casterbridge... I think it sums up Hardy's view of the world.
The antidote to the trash of today - thx so much - perhaps I'll plan a visit and pay my respects to his cottage. I always liked his - and D. H. Lawrence's - writings. Danke schoen ... :-))
Atop the craggy promontory of Dorchester, reclined a genius litterateur against a fairly large rock, waiting with bated anticipation for an eternity for the return of the apple of his eyes whose worth he barely realised before Time's cruel hands dealt him a body blow.
The attempt to claim Hardy for nationalist propaganda purposes after his death, when he was rubbished in life, is disgusting. If I were Hardy I would have stipulated in my will that is was my express will that my corpse not be used for any such monstrously demagogic purposes.
He was a misanthrope with a chip on his shoulder; and he sublimated the energy to write the truth. Finally, he treated Emma the way she would have been treated in one of his novels. Fairness and justice were for fairy tales.
Richard Benitez I agree. I've read all the novels and biographies. I'll admit not finishing The Dynasts and have read perhaps only 1/4 of the poetry. There is little here of his youth, his working life in architecture, his professional relationships, his friends, the music in his life, his cousins or the other women he knew. I had an English Lit professor who knew this work well, the other literature of the time , Hardy's influences, the contemporary issues, much more. We spent three and a half months on Hardy in seminar. So, I guess I wanted more from this documentary.
@@howardquinn5911 You wanted more? In less than an hour? What you (and we) need is a lengthy, multi part documentary about the great man. Having said that, this was well done for a one hour programme.
Difficult to hear because of the sound quality, but definitely worth straining for! Excellent post! Thank you for sharing this fascinating documentary.
