A Page of Original Works Dedicated to Hardy

The range and diversity of Hardy's oeuvre has inspired admirers worldwide to create or adapt works in his honour.

This page is a showcase for such works, containing original poetry, songs and music scores, art work and adapted playscripts.

To access these works please click on the specific title under 'Associated Pages' on the top right of this screen.

All additions are copyright of the contributors.

• Associated pages
• Visiting the Sick Tree at St. Pancras Old Church Cemetery
• 'Great Things' and 'The Oxen'
• Desperate Remedies
• A Laodicean - Part of the Novels of Ingenuity Trilogy
• The Withered Arm
• The Heaths of Hardy
• Best and Worst Poems of Thomas Hardy
• Tess (No Angel Wings)
• The Darkling Heart
• Great Things
• The Hand of Ethelberta - A New Play
• The Lepidopterist's Tragedy
• The Destruction of My England
• Henchard's Last Will and Testament
• The Gabriel Oak Tree
• The Three Wayfarers (Opera)
• Settings for Baritone and Piano by John Whittaker
• Hardy Perennials by Brenda Sharp
• Neutral Tones: Song Settings of the Poetry of Thomas Hardy
• Penpethy Souls
• A History of English Poesy
• The Coppice Gate
• Where the Picnic Was with a Musical Accompaniment by Gary Cunliffe
• In Praise
• Thomas Hardy Songs
• 'Bathsheba' by Izzy Rees
• The Three Strangers
• 'Interlopers at the Knap'
• 'What the Shepherd Saw'
• 'The Superstitious Man'
• Thomas Hardy's The Hand of Ethelberta
• Thomas Hardy Poems to Music

Harvest Home with the Distracted Preacher

On 20/09/2026
Starts 15:00 until 19:30

Hardy, Powys: Time and Place - A Joint Study Day

From 24/10/2026 until 25/10/2026
Starts 10:00 until 17:30

Chaldon Herring - A Walk, Talk & Sunday Lunch

On 25/10/2026
Starts 11:00 until 15:00

A Victorian Christmas at Poxwell Manor

On 20/12/2026
Starts 14:00 until 17:00

An Urgent Appeal

Aug2026

The Hardy Cello

Jul2026

The Withered Arm Article

Jul2026

Words, Music and Place Study Day

Jul2026