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Thomas Hardy's Medieval Mind

The LRB Podcast

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The Early Life and Architecture of Thomas Hardy

Hardy left school at 16 and was apprenticed to John Hicks in Dorchester. Gothic architects were motivated by kind of religious idealism. The whole of the Gothic revival was a way of rejecting some of the manufactured aspects of the industrial world.

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