Legacy• Hardy's career as a

writer spanned over 50 years and his works reflect the movement away from the Victorian values, as in a permanent criticism to the emergent middle class and their attemp to climb to aristocracy

His work

ProseHardy divided his novels into three classes.

1.Novels of Character and Environment•Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)•Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)•The Return of the Native (1878)•The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)•The Woodlanders (1887)•Wessex Tales (1888)•Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)•Life's Little Ironies (1894)•Jude the Obscure (1895)

2. Romances and Fantasies• A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)• The TrumpetMajor• (1880)• Two on a Tower (1882)• A Group of Noble Dames (1891)• The WellBeloved• (1897) (first published as a serial from 1892).

3. Novels of Ingenuity• Desperate Remedies (1871)• The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)• A Laodicean (1881)

There are a number of minor tales and novels including, the unpublished The Poor Man and the Lady, written in 1867, and Alicia's Diary (1887).

Hardy also wrote a few short stories, including “The Three Strangers” (1883).

4. Poetry Collections• Wessex Poems (1898)• Poems of the Past and Present (1901)• The Dynasts (1904)• The Dynasts, Part 2 (1906)• The Dynasts, Part 3 (1908)• Satires of Circumstance (1914)• Collected Poems (1919)• Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922)• Human Shows (1925)

His influence

• The american writer Robert Frost, who is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.

His influence

• The Anglo-American poet W.H Auden, who has often been regarded as among the greatest poets of the 20th century.

• His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety in tone, form and content.

His influence

• Philip Larkin was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.

• His poems are marked by what Andrew Motion calls a very English, glum accuracy about emotions, places, and relationships