steeped in the arboreal sublime, Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders carries a startling urgency
- Written by: Sophie Alexandra Frazer, Lecturer, the School of Liberal Arts, The University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong
ShutterstockIn Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders (1887), the trees sing.
Sometimes the sound is like a Gregorian chant, a threnody from the rustling leaves, the creaking boughs, the undulations of limbs heavy with leaves, swaying in the wind that rushes through the woods of Dorset’s Little Hintock.
At other times, it is a low moan, a cry...
