In Thomas Hardy's Country - II.

This article focuses on the socio-cultural and political history of England from the perspective of works of English novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy. According to the author, the English soil, which the landed gentry here have had so strongly for so many hundreds of years, must be greatly fortified by such a history; and although the passage of these great estates into the hands of the successful merchants and manufacturers of the present day is doubtless an evidence of political progress, it is at a sacrifice of some of the romance and poetry which have always made England most attractive to Americans.