Word: wessex
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which make it foolhardy, so far as personal enjoyment goes, to miss any of them. His practice of giving illustrated talks two or three times a month makes the course extremely delightful and a fair target for Vagabonders. The slide-lectures cover a multitude of topics, such as the Wessex of Hardy. The other novelty he offers is the presentation of leading actors and actresses, such as Walter Hampden or Vivian Tobin, to his class. The guests usually talk on some phase of contemporary drama...
...Wessex of Thomas Hardy", (illustrated) Professor Hersey, Emerson...
ALTHOUGH Mr. Braybrooke finished his book before Hardy's death, its appearance is coincident with the renewed interest in the Wessex genius. It treats Hardy as a writer of prose and as a poet. From these two considerations, his doctrine is defined as a philosophy that is melancholy, even morbid in its inability to lead to anything that is tangible, or that gives an idea of the purpose of life...
...story back to the middle of the 19th century, when Thackeray was writing his voluminously graceful fictions, when Gladstone was hobbling inelegantly through London, when Queen Victoria was swishing around her palace in long dresses. Hardy was then a small boy who took special pleasure in walking through Wessex fields, dawdling to talk with old men as they drove their cattle along the roads. The moors stretched out around the village of Upper Hampton where he lived; at night the wind blew a mist across them, muffling soft sounds, making a dog's voice, searching along some far hedgerow...
Among the first editions of Hardy's novels and poems is a copy of "Wessex Tales", with a letter of presentation to Robert Browning dated May, 1888. A number of rare photographs of the writer completes the collection...