托马斯·哈代是英国19世纪末20世纪初的多产作家。在长达六十多年的创作生涯中,他既以小说再现了英国维多利亚时期的社会图景,又以诗歌彰显了内心体悟。哈代一生中的大部分作品多与其故乡多塞特郡密切相关。在多塞特郡,哈代家族曾显赫一时,但时过境迁,其家族逐渐没落。正是由于自幼生长在这片绚烂而又朴素的土地上,哈代对自然有 Thomas Hardy is a prolific writer from the late 19th and early 20th centuries in England. In his more than sixty years of creative career, he not only reproduces the social scene of Victorian England during the fiction, but also demonstrates his inner comprehension through poetry. Most of Hardy’s life works are closely related to his hometown of Dorset. In Dorset, the Hardy family had a prominent moment, but the passage of time, its family gradually decline. It is precisely because I grew up in this gorgeous and simple land, Hardy has to nature