Tag: Egdon Heath

Thomas Hardy: Searching for Ballast in a Crazy World!

Egdon Heath (with Rainbarrow on the right) photographed May 2014- on location (Click to enlarge)  Thomas Hardy, when describing Egdon Heath, the physical setting for his novel Return of the Native, describes it as “ballast to the mind adrift on change, and harassed by the irrepressible New.” For Hardy this was clearly a profound reality: experience of…