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100 1 Hardy, Thomas,|d1840-1928
245 10 Under the Greenwood Tree|h[Elektronisk resurs]
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520 Under the Greenwood Tree, subtitled The Mellstock Quire, A
Rural Painting of the Dutch School, is a novel by Thomas
Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. It was Hardy's
second published novel, the last to be printed without his
name, and the first of his great series of Wessex novels.
Whilst Hardy originally thought of simply calling it The
Mellstock Quire, he settled on a title taken from a song
in Shakespeare's As You Like It (Act II, Scene V). The
Quire is the group of musicians who accompany the hymns at
the local church and we follow the fortunes of one member,
Dick Dewy, who falls in love with the new schoolmistress,
Fancy Day. Another element of the book is the battle
between the traditional musicians of the Quire and the
local vicar, Parson Maybold, who installs a church organ.
This battle illustrates the developing technology being
introduced in the Victorian era and its threat to
traditional country ways. The novel is often seen as
Thomas Hardy's most gentle and pastoral novel. Sometimes
grouped with Hardy's lesser novels, Under the Greenwood
Tree is also occasionally recognised by critics as an
important precursor to his major works. In his 1872 review
of the novel for the Saturday Review, the critic Horace
Moule, one of Hardy's mentors and friends, called it a
"prose idyll"; that judgement has stuck. Hardy's amiable,
mildly ironic portrait of rural town life in the middle of
the nineteenth century is perhaps the strongest aspect of
the work. The Wessex rustics who play critical but
generally secondary roles in Hardy's later novels, like
The Return of the Native and The Mayor of Casterbridge,
claim the centre stage in Under the Greenwood Tree. Total
Running Time (TRT): 6h, 44 min. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist, in
the tradition of George Eliot, he was also influenced both
in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially by
William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens is another important
influence on Thomas Hardy. Like Dickens, he was also
highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy
focused more on a declining rural society. Initially he
gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the
Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886),
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure
(1895). However, since the 1950s Hardy has been recognized
as a major poet, and had a significant influence on The
Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Phillip
Larkin. The bulk of his fictional works, initially
published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-
fictional region of Wessex and explored tragic characters
struggling against their passions and social
circumstances. Hardy's Wessex is based on the medieval
Anglo-Saxon kingdom and eventually came to include the
counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire,
and much of Berkshire, in south west England. [Elib]
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