Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. A distinguished gentleman with a mustache, in dressing gown and slippers, with his hand he touched his forehead showing his mental condition of anguish….
