Abstract
The relationship between the young Thomas Hardy and Horace Moule, whose blighted life ended in suicide in September 1873, has long been shadowed in mystery. Though considerably older than Hardy, Moule was unusually attentive, serving as tutor, literary counselor, and psychological reinforcer during some of the most stressful phases of Hardy's efforts to shape his maturity and realize his ambitions as a writer. Based on the known biographical facts and on a reading of four Hardy poems, this essay suggests that the relationship had a strong, if one-sided, erotic component which was the source of much personal anxiety to Hardy, but which he gradually dealt with in poems that, though very oblique, are impeccably honest.
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