Editing Thomas Hardy (section)

===Musical settings===
A number of notable English composers, including [[Gerald Finzi]],<ref>Song cycle ''[[Earth and Air and Rain]]'' (1936)</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geraldfinzi.com/biography/ |title=Biography " Gerald Finzi Official Site |publisher=Geraldfinzi.com |date=27 September 1956 |access-date=19 May 2014 |archive-date=10 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110023001/http://www.geraldfinzi.com/biography/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Benjamin Britten]],<ref>Song cycle ''[[Winter Words (song cycle)|Winter Words]]'' (1953)</ref> [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]<ref>Cantata ''[[Hodie#VII: Song|Hodie]]'' (1954)</ref> and [[Gustav Holst]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lieder.net/get_settings.html?ComposerId=1237 |title=Gustav Holst (Vocal Texts and Translations for Composer Gustav Holst) |publisher=LiederNet Archive |access-date=19 May 2014 |archive-date=14 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914203708/http://www.lieder.net/get_settings.html?ComposerId=1237 |url-status=live }}</ref> set poems by Hardy to music. Others include Holst's daughter [[Imogen Holst]], [[John Ireland (composer)|John Ireland]],<ref>''[[Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy]]''</ref> [[Muriel Herbert]], [[Ivor Gurney]] and [[Robin Milford]].<ref>''The Past and I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy'', Delphian Records DCD34307 (2024)</ref> Orchestral tone poems which evoke the landscape of Hardy's novels include  Ireland's ''[[Mai-Dun]]'' (1921) and Holst's ''[[Egdon Heath (Holst)|Egdon Heath: A Homage to Thomas Hardy]]'' (1927).

Hardy has been a significant influence on Nigel Blackwell, frontman of the [[post-punk]] British rock band [[Half Man Half Biscuit]], who has often incorporated phrases (some obscure) by or about Hardy into his song lyrics.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/jul/21/weekend7.weekend6 |title=Taking the biscuit |first=Kevin |last=Sampson |author-link=Kevin Sampson (writer) |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=21 July 2001 |access-date=27 December 2019 |archive-date=27 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227114855/https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/jul/21/weekend7.weekend6 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>See for example the song title "[[Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not]]", which is a quotation from Thomas Hardy's novel ''[[Tess of the d'Urbervilles]]'',{{cite book|url=http://www.victorianlondon.org/etexts/hardy/tess-0012.shtml|last=Hardy|first=Thomas|title=Tess of the d'Urbervilles|at=Chapter 12|year=1891|access-date=21 February 2015|archive-date=21 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221154951/http://www.victorianlondon.org/etexts/hardy/tess-0012.shtml|url-status=live}} which is itself an adaptation of the [[Second Epistle of Peter]] at [[s:Bible (King James)/2 Peter#Chapter 2|2:3]]: "Their damnation slumbereth not".</ref>