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...product of his researches was a valuable biography: Hardy of Wessex (TIME, April 22, 1940). Another is this study of Hardy's U.S. readers and reputation...
Readers readily admitted that there was nothing about the Autobiography so shamelessly coarse as the current novels by young Thomas Hardy (whose fictional county of "Wessex" was slowly replacing Trollope's "Barsetshire"), nothing so sensual and pagan as the lyrics of up-&-coming Poet Oscar Wilde, nothing so effete as the art-for-art's-sake of Oxford's esthetic Walter Pater...
...monstrosities, grammatical or otherwise, mar Windswept. It is an ideal book for the Christmas lists, a gift for mother and for young nieces who want to write. Its central subject is a house and a promontory on the savage Maine coast, a region which is Novelist Chase's Wessex. A family of thoughtful New Englanders share their love of this place with a Czech immigrant and a handful of local citizens. The plot is no more than their comings & goings, births & deaths, over 60 years. Behind this is Nature's overpowering background of sea, fog, wind; the pages...
Like most Glasgow novels, this one is laid in Queenborough, the imaginary Virginia town which she had made as much her literary province as Hardy made Wessex or Trollope Barsetshire. It is the story of the ineffectualness of a Southern aristocrat, Asa Timberlake, who has lost his money but not his manners. The Timberlake fortune had been invested in a cigaret factory. Now factory and fortune belonged to the Standard Tobacco Company. Asa still had a job with Standard, but he never knew for how long. His wife, plain-faced Lavinia, had stooped to marry him. Later she developed...
Thomas Hardy's novels of "Wessex'' are unquestionably the greatest 19th-Century English fiction dealing with folk characters and a rural setting. Such characters and such a setting in the U. S. have been the chosen material of the South's most gifted modern writers. The Southern Review itself was founded five years ago by writers who thought seriously about "Agrarianism," i.e., rehabilitation of the land, return to the life on it, respect for its literary possibilities - as a salvation for the South...