Thomas Hardy is most commonly classified as a:
- Restoration playwright
- Romantic poet only
- Late Victorian / Early Modernist novelist
- Augustan satirist
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Correct answer: C. Late Victorian / Early Modernist novelist
1. Hardy's major novels appear in the 1870s-1890s.
2. His later poetry edges into the early modernist sensibility.
3. He is canonically a late-Victorian novelist.
_Source: Literary History — composite reference — "Hardy — listed in Romantic + Victorian content area"_