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Poem: She Hears the Storm

Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in the English village of Higher Bockhampton in the county of Dorset. He died in 1928 at Max Gate, a house he built for himself and his first wife, Emma Lavinia Gifford, in Dorchester, a few miles from his birthplace. Hardy’s youth was influenced by the musicality of his father, a stonemason and fiddler, and his mother, Jemima Hand Hardy, often described as the real guiding star of Hardy’s early life.

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Poem: Seen by the Waits (Thomas Hardy)

Through snowy woods and shady

We went to play a tune

To the lonely manor-lady

By the light of the Christmas moon.



We violed till, upward glancing

To where a mirror leaned,

We saw her airily dancing,

Deeming her movements screened;



Dancing alone in the room there,

Thin-draped in her robe of night;

Her postures, glassed in the gloom there,

Were a strange phantasmal sight.



She had learnt (we heard when homing)

That her roving spouse was dead;

Why she had danced in the gloaming

We thought, but never said.

Eveline, by James Joyce

James Joyce

Born James Augustine Aloysius Joyce on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland, Joyce was one of the most revered writers of the 20th century, whose landmark book, Ulysses, is often hailed as one of the finest novels ever written. 

Joyce came from a big family. He was the eldest of ten children born to John Stanislaus Joyce and his wife Marry Murray Joyce. His father, while a talented singer (he reportedly had one of the finest tenor voices in all of Ireland), didn't provide a stable a household. He liked to drink and his lack of attention to the family finances meant the Joyces never had much money.

Following an intestinal operation, the writer died at the age of 59 on January 13, 1941 at the Schwesternhause von Roten Kreuz Hospital. His wife and son were at his bedside when he passed.

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. Eveline is one of those 15 stories.

References:
The Biography.com website. (2017) James Joyce Biography. A&E Television Networks.  Last updated: April 27, 2017. Retrieved from: https://www.biography.com/people/james-joyce-9358676 (March 2018)