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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 of
the 1950s and 1960s.
Thomas Hardy was born at Higher Bockhampton, a hamlet in the parish of Stinsford to the
east of Dorchester in Dorset, England.
In 1870, while on an architectural mission to restore the parish church of St Juliot in
Cornwall, Hardy met and fell in love with Emma Lavinia Gifford, whom he married in 1874.
Although he later became estranged from his wife, her death in 1912 had a traumatic effect on
him. He made a trip to Cornwall to revisit places linked with their courtship; his Poems 1912-
13 explore his grief. In 1914, Hardy married his secretary Florence Dugdale, 40 years his
junior, whom he had met in 1905. However, Hardy remained preoccupied with Emma's
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