Michael millgate thomas hardy biography

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. New York, Random House, ; one vol., xvi pp. Price : £ -Thomas Hardy's growing popularity with modern readership has recently been matched by an increasing scholarly interest in his works and

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person. Since J. O. Bailey's pioneering study of The Poetry of Thomas Hardy () we have seen a spate of first-class publications on this great Victorian, including several editions of his correspondence and personal notebooks. Professor Michael Millgate's biography of Hardy does not come as a surprise. His recognition as a prominent Hardy authority dates from when he published Thomas Hardy .· His Career as a Novelist. Then, too, his co-editorship of the Clarendon Press Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy () has enabled him to unearth a mine of documents which shed fresh sidelight on Hardy's life, personality, and literary achievements. Put at its simplest, it is this availability of new material that has allowed Millgate to present a profile of Hardy fuller and closer to life than those sketched by his numerous predecessors. Millgate draws extensively on unpublished letters of Leslie Stephen and of Edmund Gosse, as well as on the diaries of Edward Clodd. Further, Millgate excels all previous Hardy biographers in his detailed description of the genesis and publication of Hard

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Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited

September 25,

I just finished reading Michael Millgate's biography of Thomas Hardy. Interestingly, I read this immediately after finishing Claire Tomalin's more recent Hardy biography, Thomas Hardy. Millgate's biography is superb--scholarly and very detailed. I enjoyed it very much, but if I had to choose my favorite, I'd probably go with Tomalin's. Why? I loved the way that Tomalin integrated Hardy's poetry so seamlessly into the narrative of his interesting life. It was her great reliance and use of his poetry, from my perspective, that so fully fleshed out the man and the ideas behind those wonderful novels of his. Millgate, on the other hand, tells the full, complicated, and rich story of Hardy's life; and while Millgate features Hardy's poetry throughout the book too, it is but a part of the larger story of the man and his life. Both books are worthy and quite complementary, they are just different from one another.

In summation, if you are a dyed-in-the-wool fan of Thomas Hardy's fiction and poetry, I say that you should have both of these biographies on your bookshelf. They really are the definitive Hardy biographies, and both are quite readable. Finally, to fully round out your Hardy library, I would also recommend the addition of