T.S. Eliot wrote that this "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" author was "unhampered by any ideas"
Eliot compares melodrama with drama in 
Wilkie Collins and ..... is the first therapeutic novel, in part written to heal the 
author's self, or at ...... unhampered by any ideasit would be a good description 
of Eustacia, but .... which may be the most powerful prose passage that Hardy 
ever wrote:... [DOC] [TLE] Themes in Thomas Hardy's short stories.