# Robert Trewe — Short Fiction character guide

> Robert Trewe in Short Fiction by Thomas Hardy.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Trewe, Mr. Trewe, a Poet Mr. Robert Trewe

**First appearance:** 0159-an-imaginative-woman

## Snapshot

A bachelor poet of boyish merriment whose verses have quietly captured a reader he has never met, and whose business at the mill is strictly payment.

## Who they are

Trewe arrives at the mill on a matter of money, but his reputation as a poet travels ahead of him into stranger hands. A man of late years yet boyish spirits, unmarried and unattached, he becomes the unwitting object of a secret admiration that shapes the story from a distance. His verse, not his person, is the engine of the plot's central longing.

## Relationships

### [Ella Marchmill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_53_se/characters/ella_marchmill)

_psychological_

Ella is obsessed with the poet Robert Trewe, idealizing him from afar, which leads to psychological fixation.

### [Ella Marchmill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_53_se/characters/ella_marchmill)

_psychological_

Ella is obsessed with the poet Robert Trewe, idealizing him from afar, which leads to psychological fixation.

## In the story

### [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_53_se/chapters/xvii)

Not present in this chapter.

### [An Imaginative Woman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_53_se/chapters/an-imaginative-woman)

The unseen poet whose rooms Ella rents; his presence haunts the chapter through his books and clothing.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_53_se/chapters/iii)

Mr. Sainway, the gentle and eloquent curate whose preaching draws large crowds and who forms a close friendship with Captain Maumbry.

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