Thomas Hardy Biography video

Use online video to study the biography of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. Use the video subtitles to improve Reading and Literacy skills .... simultaneously!

Use these History of British Literature videos entitled The Biography of Thomas Hardy to study the career of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy whose works traverse the moors and woodlands of south-western England.

Discover how Thomas Hardy's writings focus on human relationships, and the conflicts between spirit and flesh, thought and instinct.

Learning Objectives:

• Survey the life and literary career of the Victorian novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.
• Contrast events depicted in Thomas Hardy's novels with the author's own life experiences, and identify those ideas that are present throughout all of his works.
• Understand the major themes of Thomas Hardy's novels and poems.
• Examine the focus Thomas Hardy placed on the complexities of human relationships and the intrinsic conflicts between spirit and flesh, thought and instinct.

• Literature > The History Of British Literature > The Time Life And Works Of Thomas Hardy
• The Time Life and Works of Thomas Hardy Part 1 (Runtime: 19:38)
• The Time Life and Works of Thomas Hardy Part 2 (Runtime: 19:46)