Turons de Wessex

In his lyrical work, Thomas Hardy speaks of a fading rural past and the difficulties of the present, and he does so from an uninhibited and modern point of view, far from the prevailing romanticism and burdensome of his Victorian contemporaries. The protagonists of his almost a thousand poems are the ordinary people of his county and Wessex is the old Saxon name that he recovers from oblivion to name this literary landscape, invented but almost real, of the west of England where he places his stories. It will be on the stage of these hills that his vision of the world and the destiny of men, through his poetic genius, takes on a life of its own, takes flight and continues to excite us. All in all a literary, moral and aesthetic project that made him one of the great figures of modern lyricism and the beacon that has guided some of the great poets of the English language of the 20th century: Yeats, Brooke, Auden, Eliot, Frost or Larkin.