Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Two Wessex Tales
Thomas hardy and George Meredith have Often been coupled as the last Of the Victorians. In both cases the term, - as journalistic terms are too apt to be, is peculiarly inappropriate. Neither Meredith nor Hardy is Victorian, except in the sense that they began their careers before the end Of that period. Rightly or wrongly, a certain smug righteousness, professional optimism, a determined brightness Of outlook, are generally associated with the art which the Victorian era has bequeathed to us. Even Browning and Arnold, in some respects the finest minds Of the time, did not altogether escape this. It was left to Meredith and Hardy to break the tradition.
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