This author of "The Ruined Maid" and "The Darkling Thrush" wrote an 1878 novel in which Diggory Venn and the title character are unable to save Eustacia Vye from drowning.
The title character of a poem by this man wears "gay bracelets and bright feathers" after formerly "digging potatoes and spudding up docks." In another poem by this man, the titular "frail, gaunt, and small" creature flings his soul "upon the growing gloom" and sings a "happy goodÂ­night air." This author of "The Ruined Maid" and "The Darkling Thrush" wrote an 1878 novel in which Diggory Venn and the title character are unable to save Eustacia Vye from drowning. Another novel by this author begins with Michael Henchard selling his family for five guineas. For 10 points, name this English author of The Return of the Native and The Mayor of Casterbridge.
The title character of a poem by this man wears "gay bracelets and bright feathers" after formerly "digging potatoes and spudding up docks."
Thomas Hardy