El paseante que por nostalgia siga la carretera abandonada que une en línea casi recta, como un meridiano, la ciudad de Bristol con la costa sur de Inglaterra se encontrará durante la segunda mitad del viaje cerca de unos extensos bosques salpicados de manzanares. Allí los árboles, ya sean maderables o frutales, proyectan luces y sombras sobre los arbustos que flanquean la vía convirtiéndolos en jirones. Sus ramas bajas se extienden por encima del camino, en cómoda horizontalidad, como si pudieran tenderse sobre el aire frágil. En un punto cercano a las faldas de Blackmoor Vale, donde ya se avista a unos cuatro o cinco kilómetros la prominente cima de High-Stoy Hill, el camino queda cubierto por la gran cantidad de hojas que cae de los árboles con la llegada del otoño. Cuando los días se vuelven más oscuros en ese lugar solitario, regresan a la mente del ocioso los numerosos cocheros alegres (ahora ya difuntos) que pasaron por la carretera, los pies ampollados que la recorrieron y las lágrimas allí derramadas.
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Höhe: 220 mm
Breite: 170 mm
Dicke: 19 mm
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979-10-419-3490-4 (9791041934904)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.
While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin.
