The poem is quoted by Sue Bridehead in Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel, Jude the Obscure and also by Edward Ashburnham in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.

Critically, it is considered a Bildungsroman – i. e., a novel of self-cultivation – and would be included in the same genre as Dickens's own Great Expectations ( 1861 ), Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay, D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

* Salisbury is the original of " Melchester " in Thomas Hardy's novels, such as Jude the Obscure ( 1895 ).

It has been suggested that this frieze with its Latin motto is the real counterpart of the one translated for the waiting crowd by the title character of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.

* " Father Time " is a character in " Jude the Obscure ", a novel by Thomas Hardy.

Called " Jude the Obscene " by at least one reviewer, Jude the Obscure received a harsh reception from scandalised critics ; it is thought largely for this reason that Hardy made the decision to produce only poetry and drama for his remaining 32 years.

Wantage is the ' Alfredston ' of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.

Blanchot's best-known fictional works are Thomas the Obscure, an unsettling récit (" is not the narration of an event, but that event itself, the approach to that event, the place where that event is made to happen ") about the experience of reading and loss ; Death Sentence ; Aminadab and The Most High ( about a bureaucrat in a totalitarian state ).

On the other hand, Blanchot's own literary works, like the famous Thomas the Obscure, heavily influenced Levinas ' and Bataille's ideas about the possibility that our vision of reality is blurred because of the use of words ( thus making everything you perceive automatically as abstract as words are ).

Certain incidents, such as Fanny's pregnancy with an illegitimate child and Boldwood's sudden lapse into murderous violence, foreshadow events in Tess of the d ' Urbervilles, where ( as in Jude the Obscure ) the protagonist is plagued by relentless misfortunes, and dies young at the end.

Hungerford may be Kennetbridge in Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure, but this is usually thought to be Newbury.

The Rise of Christianity, ( subtitled either " A sociologist reconsiders history " or " How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries ," depending on the edition ) is a book by the sociologist Rodney Stark, which examines the rise of Christianity from a small movement in Galilee and Judea at the time of Jesus, to the majority religion of the Roman Empire a few centuries later.

Obscure during his lifetime, he is now highly regarded by many musicians and critics.

Stinsford is the original ' Mellstock ' of Hardy's novels Under the Greenwood Tree and Jude the Obscure.

She is also recognized for her work in Luis Buñuel's surrealist classic That Obscure Object of Desire ( 1977 ), and in the internationally successful film Too Beautiful For You ( 1989 ), for which she won the César Award for Best Actress.

* The Rue Obscure or “ Dark Street ” is a passage way under the harbour front houses which dates back to 1260.

* In Thomas Hardy's novel, Jude the Obscure, a drinking companion of the titular character is called Tinker Taylor.

The term conation is no longer widely known — it is in " The 1, 000 Most Obscure Words in the English Language ," defined as " the area of one's active mentality that has to do with desire, volition, and striving ", but a closer look turns up several references to conation as the third faculty of the mind.

Obscure Alternatives is the second album by English band Japan, released in October 1978, the follow-up to their debut album Adolescent Sex from seven months earlier.

That Obscure Object of Desire (; ) is a 1977 film directed by Luis Buñuel.

Arthur Schopenhauer, largely as a result of his system of aesthetics, is perhaps the most influential recent philosopher in the history of literature ; Thomas Hardy's later novels frequently allude to Schopenhauerian themes, particularly in Jude the Obscure.

Fawley is the original ' Marygreen ' of Hardy's Jude the Obscure.

Thomas Hardy stopped writing fiction after Jude the Obscure ( 1895 ) was severely criticized, so that the major novelists writing in Britain at the start of the 20th century were an Irishman James Joyce ( 1882-1941 ) and two immigrants, American Henry James ( 1843-1916 ) and Pole Joseph Conrad ( 1857-1924 ).

Law was named after a " bit of both " the book Jude the Obscure and the Beatles song " Hey Jude ".

Obscure jazz standards began to show up on the sudden rush of established pop singers to cover jazz standards ( the obscure Billy Barnes ballad " Something Cool ," for instance, had a rise in popularity after Jones introduced it in concert to rock audiences on her debut tour ).

The first album, Music From The Penguin Cafe, was released in 1976 on Brian Eno's experimental Obscure Records label, an offshoot of the EG label ; a collection of pieces recorded in the years 1974-1976, it was followed in 1981 by Penguin Cafe Orchestra, after which the band settled into a more regular release schedule.

" Peering into the Obscure " ( 6, 覽冥訓 ) describes Fuxi and Nüwa being transported by yinglong 應龍 and qingqiu 青虯 " green qiu-dragons ", while accompanied by baichi 白螭 " white chi-dragons " and benshe 奔蛇 " speeding snakes ".

Having been killed off in the last episode of the original series, at his request, Powell became a pin-up and a household name, following up with starring roles in several BBC serials, including television adaptations of the novels Sentimental Education ( 1970 ) and Jude the Obscure ( 1971 ).

A major later novel was George Eliot's ( 1819-80 ) Middlemarch ( 1872 ), while the major novelist of the later part of Queen Victoria's reign was Thomas Hardy ( 1840-1928 ), whose first novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, appeared in 1872 and his last, Jude the Obscure, in 1895.

There is a reference to them in Part I, Chapter 5 of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, where young Jude, trying to educate himself by reading while delivering bread from a horse and cart, " plunge into the simpler passages from Caesar, Virgil, or Horace.

In another feature on Goold's 2008 revival, following the responses of " three Pinter virgins " who did not understand or enjoy it (" Matilda Egere-Cooper, urban music journalist: ' Obscure and exhausting ' "; " David Knott, political lobbyist: ' Don't expect to feel uplifted ...' "; and " Susie Rushton, editor and columnist: ' Where's the joke?

Emma was also very disapproving of Jude the Obscure, in part because of the book's criticisms of religion, but also because she worried that the reading public would believe that the relationship between Jude and Sue directly paralleled her strained relationship with Hardy ( which, in a figurative sense, it did ).

His piece " American Standard " was recorded and released on Obscure Records in 1975.

Obscure myths suggest that the precursors of the modern organizations of mages originally gathered in ancient Egypt.

Hardy's Wessex excluded Devon, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, but the city of Oxford, which he called " Christminster ", was visited as part of Wessex in Jude the Obscure.

Obscure but innocent words like posset ( a medieval drink made with curdled milk ) became cues for instant giggling, especially among adolescents in school.

* Cet obscur objet du désir ( That Obscure Object of Desire, 1977 ) illuminates the practical self-deceptions required for buying love as marriage.

Richard Arman Gregory compared the novel to Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.

On January 27, 2004, Elektra / Asylum / Rhino Records released Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings, a two CD set compilation, with 31 digitally remastered songs, four of them demos and one unreleased.

The band débuted with the 1978 album Adolescent Sex and followed up with their second album, Obscure Alternatives, the same year.

Jude the Obscure, the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial and was first published in book form in 1895.

A two-part musical stage adaptation of " Jude the Obscure " by Ian Finley ( book ), Bruce Benedict ( music ), Jonathan Fitts ( music ), and Jerome Davis ( lyrics ), premiered at Burning Coal Theatre Company in Raleigh, NC in April 2012.

Additionally, " Jude the Obscure " was a long time pseudonymous contributor to the Northern Irish literary magazine The Honest Ulsterman.

The town features in Thomas Hardy's Wessex with the names Shaston and Palladour, of particular significance in Jude the Obscure.

Allmusic wrote about Believer's Sanity Obscure album: " Before 1990, the Christian heavy metal genre rarely strayed from generic riffing and poor lyrics.

" Matthew Daemon ", also created by Dick Siegel, was written and illustrated by Mike Collins and was a spin off from the " SOS Matthew Daemon ( Seeker of Obscure Supernaturals )" feature.