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 ...

Thomas Hardy died in 1928; Florence Hardy succumbed to the cancer she feared in 1937. Gertrude Bugler, after a happy life in the country with her husband and child, died at age 95 in 1992.

Muses, lovers, sisters, wives – Thomas Hardy’s trouble with women. From Tess to Bathsheba, he created some of literature’s most enduring female characters, writes Robert McCrum.