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Thomas Hardy, marriage, romance, mythology, Ovid, Metamorphoses, till death do us part, Valentines, romantic poets, romanticism, Orpheus, Eurydice, undying love, English Literature, Classics, free ebooks, literature in translation
Dryden, transl Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 10 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/met... the romance Metamorphoses, Book 11 the Death http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/met... Corot, Orpheus and Eurydice http://www.musesrealm.net/stories/orpheu... Portable Poetry: Hardy, The Voice http://www.portablepoetry.com/poems/thom... Woman, much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed from the one whon was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair. Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then, Standing as when I drew near to the town Where you would wait for me: yes, as I knew you then, Even to the original ash-blue gown! Thomas Hardy, The Voice Thomas Hardy married Emma Lavinia Gifford after four years of courtship. The marriage was as socially amenable as Dickens' with his wife. We see Hardy's wife appear in "A Pair of Blue Eyes" in the ash blue dress as well as in several of his other books. The son of a Master Mason, Hardy was apprenticed for ecclesiastical architecture, but his love of Classics drew him into literature. His portrait can be found in Jude the Obscure, who struggles to learn classical Greek through his own self-studies and finds himself entangled in an unwanted marriage and constant debt. Hardy is a Romantic, descended from Romantics, claiming Wordsworth and Gray for parentage. After the public furor of "Jude the Obscure," Hardy restricted himself to writing verse-and after his wife's death, eulogizing her, although she nearly drove him mad, albeit she was mad herself. "Woman, much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were..." Seeing that Mrs Hardy was long dead when these lines were written, it is safe to say that she was definitely not in the same state as when he first met her with the worms crawling through her nose and spiders tickling her toes. The yearning for human companionship and even make the companionship of an enemy appealing. And although Hardy's novels are more bleak than Dicken's Bleak House, he romanticizes a relationship that was prickly as best; but as they say, the porcupine snuggles with its lover. Orpheus is romantacized in a similar manner, held up top be the eternal lover, willing to descend into the depths of Hell to recall his darling Eurydice. He takes a course in musicology, studies flute or harp at Juliard and then masters Extreme Obedience School for Three-Headed Dogs to retrieve her from the Underworld.
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