Roderick Johnson

'' Through a goof deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.'' Thomas Hardy Poet, Author of the 20th century. He was the most recognized author of the Victorian era and known primarily as a novelist. Hardy is known as a gifted poet. As a poet, Thomas was best known for Love, passion, and the unexpected. Thomas was known for many accomplishments through his life.

Thomas Hardy was born in a village of upper Bock Hampton in England on June 2, 1840. Thomas Hardy was a man of wonders and achievement. Thomas was an English novelist and poet who set his works in the semi-fictionalized county of Wessex. Thomas was the child of Thomas Hardy Senior and Jemima Hand Hardy. Thomas had no siblings which he always wanted. Thomas mother and father were both highly educated people (3-2).

Thomas attended Julia Martin High school in Bock Hampton. Most of Thomas' education came from the books he found in Dorchester. Thomas taught himself French, German, and Latin. Thomas Hardy attended King's College in London and Bock Hampton College, which he went to school to achieve success in his writing career His mother, though she had been brought up in poverty and had only a basic education, read widely, and encouraged Hardy to do the same (4-2).

However, Thomas Hardy Occupation was being a Poet, Author, and English Novelist, after devoting his first twenty-five years of his literary career and fourteen novels. Thomas Hardy put all of his attention into writing poetry. Thomas style of poetry was very unlike most of his contemporizes. Hardy's long career spanned the Victorian era and modern era. Also, Thomas was an architectural apprentice in London. In 1862 he moved to London, where he found employment in the office of the a...

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...s Now’’ The poem starts off with the words of the title and then goes into something of a long parenthetical, until the last stanza which continues the first line with "Face unto face." So it just means what exists between them, the bare truth without preconceptions and frills, now in present time. Also, from the title the speaker wants to happen "between" himself and the other person he's speaking to. Between us now is a awesome and interesting poem and have lots of strong details in it about Love.

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