Claire Tomalin
“The contradictions always present in Hardy, between the vulnerable, doomstruck man and the serene inhabitant of the natural world.”
Donald Davie
Hardy is a poet who dells on human mortality
Dennis Taylor
Hardy raises major questions about the nature and meaning of experience that occupies the Victorians
John Paul Riquelme
Hardy’s elegies resist the tendency of elegies to provide comfort in situations of loss