Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Pastoral written by Indy Clark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reads Hardy's poetry of the rural as deeply rooted in the historical tradition of the pastoral mode even as it complicates and extends it. It shows that in addition to reinstating the original tensions of classical pastoral, Hardy dramatizes a heightened awareness of complex communities and the relations of class, labour, and gender.