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callmemadam
16 Sep 2021, 17:34
TV Watch: Thomas Hardy: Fate, Exclusion and Tragedy
That's a shame. Under the Greenwood Tree is one I recommend to people as light and happy compared with some of the others. Schools have a lot to answer for, it seems!
(Anonymous)
16 Sep 2021, 14:32
TV Watch: Thomas Hardy: Fate, Exclusion and Tragedy
I had to read 'Under the Greenwood Tree' at school, (all in dialect) which I found very hard going, and it dissuaded me from reading any more of his novels. However, I do enjoy his poems.
callmemadam
15 Sep 2021, 14:46
TV Watch: Thomas Hardy: Fate, Exclusion and Tragedy
It was just one of the poems used in the programme, with film of Beeny Cliff. It probably looks just the same as when Hardy saw it with Emma.

Nobody should be made to read Jude the Obscure at…
puddleshark
15 Sep 2021, 11:01
TV Watch: Thomas Hardy: Fate, Exclusion and Tragedy
One of my all time favourite poems.

I just wish I could convince more people that Hardy was not just a doom-monger and also that he was one of our greatest poets.

Yes. After being made to read…
callmemadam
12 Sep 2021, 13:26
TV Watch: Afghanistan: The Great Game - A Personal View by Rory Stewart
I couldn't agree more.