Afterwards by Thomas Hardy When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the ...

The poet Kate Davis explores the way Thomas Hardy's poem 'Afterwards' has influenced her way of being. In this series, artists, writers and thinkers tell us about the ways they have been shaped by ...

In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and “Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” ...

EXCLUSIVE: The novelist Thomas Hardy took photographer Hermann Lea around his beloved Dorset to show him the real-life locations he wrote into his works.