In March 1896, after the publication of Jude the Obscure, often deemed the last Victorian novel, Thomas Hardy renounced novel writing in favor of poetry. Image: Photograph of Thomas Hardy (c. 1910-15), from the George Grantham Bain Collection of the Library of Congress. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.13585. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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Anna Kornbluh, “Thomas Hardy’s ‘End of Prose’”