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absolutely forced upon thewriter by circumstances;he forced them upon himself fromjudgement.  \n骨  \nThus,though the people in most of the novels(and in muchof the shorter verse)are dwellers in a province bounded onthe north by the Thames,on the south by the English Chan-nel,on the east by a line running from Hayling Islandto Windsor Forest,and on the west the Cornish coast,theywere meant to be typically and essentially those of any andevery place where \"Thought's the slave of life,and life time'sfool’—beings in whose hearts and minds that which is ap-parently local should be really universal.THOMAS HARDY,General Preface to the Wessex Edition(1912).  \nThomas The  \n# HardySociologicalImagination\n\nNOORUL HASAN  \nNooRUL HASAN 1982Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1982  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publicationmay be reproduced or transmitted,in any form orby any means,without permission  \nFirst published 1982Reprinted 1985  \nPublished by  \nTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTDLondon and Basingstoke  \nAssociated companies inDelhiDublinHong Kong JohannesburgLagosMelbourne New YorkSingaporeToronto  \nISBN 978-1-349-06253-9  \nISBN 978-1-349-06251-5(eBook)  \nDOI10.1007/978-1-349-06251-5  \n# For CANDYSUNNYBABYCHOTA\n\n# Foreword\n\nA recent British survey showed that Hardy is nowextremely popular with young people.F.R.Leavis's refusalto include Hardy in his great tradition is not acceptable tomost contemporary readers.During the last decade literarycriticism has thrown fresh light on Hardy's genius,on thetensions and contradictions in his art.In spite of his pessimismhe was a man of courage and vitality.His second wife,in aletter,wrote of him sitting late in life in his study composinga most dismal poem with great spirit.  \nIn his Macmillan introduction to Tess of the dUrbervilles,P.N.Furbank calls Hardy a late nineteenth century emotion-alist.He stands towards the humanist,didactic,'teaching'tra-dition of fiction—the school of Dickens and George Eliot—somewhat in the relation that Mahler or Strauss did to theBeethoven tradition in music.  \nHardy was deeply and radically divided.He could not makesense of the world,and his novels,in their contraries,reflect hisscepticism.Those who look for ‘organic'unity in his novelswill be disappointed,for his greatness lies in his refusal to showharmonies where none exist.Optimism about ordinary peopleand the self-renewing qualities of country traditions is balancedby pessimism about the break-down of the old agriculturalorder and the indifference of the universe to pain and death.  \nIn his introduction to Poems of Thomas Hardy,T.R.M.Creighton says that the poetry presents a composite picture ofHardy's mind:a mind concerned not to explain but to declareitself,able to sustain logical discrepancies within an intuitiveframework.Noorul Hasan's sensitive account of Hardy's treat-ment of rural society similarly emphasises and justifies thisintuitive genius.Dr Hasan supports Hardy's belief that 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