This site consists of four sections. The first is a series of articles -- essays, reflections, narratives, poems, and so on -- devoted to aspects of Hardy's life and works. For several years the Miscellany was a zine, and now this section represents the archived editions of that effort.

      The next two projects are photographic, presenting contemporary, previously unpublished photographs of elements of Hardy's work and of his life. Hermann Lea is the first and still the best-known photographer to illustrate Hardy's work by visiting with a camera sites used as models for the fictional world of "Wessex." What remains today of these locations? The Miscellany provides contemporary images of those sites. A second collection of photographs illustrates locales from Hardy's life.

      The final element of the site is the republication of a long out-of-print book, Thomas Hardy, Novelist or Poet?, by A.E. Newton.

      You may e-mail queries and suggestions to John Gould at the address below. He wishes to thank gratefully Samphan Antonaccio, the designer of the page. Much help came as well from Paul Kalkstein.

(The same thought resumed)

  So, Time,
  Royal, sublime;
Heretofore held to be
Master and enemy,
Thief of my Love's adornings,
Despoiling her to scornings: -
The sound philosopher
Now sets him to aver
  You are nought
  But a thought
Without reality.

  Young, old,
  Passioned, cold,
All the loved-lost thus
Are beings continuous,
In dateless dure abiding,
Over the present striding
With placid permanence
That knows not transience:
  Firm in the Vast,
  First, last;
Afar, yet close to us.