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His birth date
He was born in the 1840, Higher Bockhampton -
Studies
After having frequented the school in Dorchester, at sixteen he became a disciple and assistant of the architect of the same city John Hicks, with whom he remained until 1862
On this date he went to London and began working in the office of architect Sir Arthur Blomfield. -
His first novel
His first novel was The poor and the lady in 1867, it never got published -
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Works
The following year was published Under the green forest
and in 1873 Two blue eyes -
Marriage
In 1873 his courtship with Emma Lavinia Gifford, whom Hardy joined in marriage in 1874. -
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During his illness
During the prolonged illness that in 1880 forced him to keep bed several months he composed Una laodicense. In 1882 Two appeared in a tower; The well loved, published in 1892 for deliveries and in 1897 in book form, was Hardy's latest novel. -
His home
In 1883 the author had undertaken the construction of his Max Gate house, in Dorchester, where he spent the rest of his life except during the period of his long trip to France and Italy in 1887 and during his annual visits to London. -
The last time in his life
In the last times of his life Hardy devoted himself exclusively to poetry; He gathered the poetic compositions he had been writing continuously since his youth and composed many others, published at intervals: Wessex Poems (1898), Poems of the past and present (1902) -
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Travel
A trip to Holland, along the Rhine, and to Brussels in 1876 allowed him to visit the battlefield of Waterloo, which he later described in the great dramatic poem The Dinastas -
His second marriage
Widowed in 1912, he married again in 1914 with Florence Emily Dugdale. -
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Nowadays
Currently his poetry is much appreciated, both for his refined and objective proseism and for the ironic and melancholic naturalness. He is considered a forerunner of many contemporary poets
