Thomas Hardy:Life And Background

Abstract

Hardy’s Wessex is the most strongly-defined of all English fictional regions, Casterbridge, its centre, its most vividly-realized town. This is because Hardy, both in prose and poetry, wrote so powerfully of what he had observed, experienced and inherited as he grew up in the heart of what was to become Wessex. As a young man he moved to London but inevitably returned to Wessex, eventually Dorchester, to produce his finest work