HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H0010 2/1/00 "FEBRUARY 2000 ANNOUNCEMENTS" ======================================================= X-Sender: wwmorgan@mail.ilstu.edu Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 10:58:55 -0600 Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for February Earlier this morning, I posted Hardy's "The Mother Mourns" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for February, 2000. This month's poem is the second in a series of Hardy pieces about the meaning of the natural world. You can find the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion by following the links from the main TTHA page at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm or by going directly to http://netforum.ilstu.edu/cgi-bin/netforum/ths/a/1/ Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month discussion, you will encounter a program called NetForum which will give you the opportunity to read the poem as well as any comments it may have generated, compose a response, preview your response, edit it further if you like, and finally submit your contribution by clicking on the button labeled Post the Message. (*DON'T use the Reset Message button*; you will lose your work.) If you are composing an intricate or long response, you may want to guard against system crashes and other contingencies by first preparing your response in a word processing program, then copying it to your clipboard before pasting it into the message area of NetForum. And if you prefer, feel free to send me your contribution as an e-mail, and I will post it for you: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu. While the discussions for February, 1998 through November 1999 have been "closed" and their contents edited and published in *The Hardy Review* [I:1 (July 1998) and 2:1 (Summer 1999)], the discussions of "The Going" (December), "Channel Firing" (January), "The Voice" (February), "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses" (March), "The Phantom Horsewoman" (April), "After the Visit" and "To Meet, or Otherwise" (May), "Under the Waterfall (June), "A Singer Asleep" (July), "The Shadow on the Stone" (August), "During Wind and Rain" (September), "Beeny Cliff" (October), and "The Haunter," "His Visitor," "The Spell of the Rose" (November), "Where the Picnic Was" and "If You Had Known" (December), and "Nature's Questioning" (January) are still open, and your contributions are invited. Welcome to the February 2000 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 16:08:44 -0500 From: Robert Schweik Subject: Old Cambridge History and New Occasional Series Here are a couple of matters I thought would be of interest to the members of HARDY-L. First, an electronic edition of the *Cambridge History of English and American Literature*, 18 vols., 1907-1921, has recently become available online at . It does *not* include Hardy because its policy was not to include living authors, so it will *not* be part of the TTHA Links files; but it does cover many of Hardy's contemporaries and provides a glimpse into the views of professorial types contemporary with Hardy as to how they thought literary scene looked in 1907-1921. So I thought I'd call HARDY-L members' attention to it. Worth noting, too, is that the Bartleby.com site *does* include a valuable e-text of the 1898 *Wessex Poems and Other Verses* (see the TTHA Links A 29, "Bartleby.com," and good e-texts of such works as Housman's 1896 *A Shropshire Lad* and other writings contemporaneous with Hardy. Second, I've just had a chance to read the newly-published *Editing Hardy*, ed. by Rosemarie Morgan. This Volume One in the Thomas Hardy Association's "Occasional Series," The Hardy Association Press, Winter, 1999, came as a surprise and a delight to me, as I think it will to many others interested in Hardy. It reproduces, in lightly edited form, the Forum discussions on Hardy editions and principles of editing from October, 1998, to November, 1999, with a "Preamble" by Rosemarie Morgan on the TTHA Forum and Poem of the Month discussions, and an "Introduction" by Betty Cortus. Altogether there are fifteen different contributors to the discussion, and what I found remarkable was the quality of the whole. When a Forum discussion like that goes on over the course of a year, it's easy to lose sight of the details; in volume form, its value is much more readily apparent. The TTHA "Occasional Series" is off to a great start, and TTHA members can get it at the reduced price of 5 Pounds or 7.50 Dollars (click on the "Hardy Review Order Form" line at the TTHA web site opening page). Bob Robert Schweik Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus schweik@ait.fredonia.edu ========== Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 16:22:19 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: TTHA Occasional Series, _Editing Hardy_ Dear All, The winter 1999 publication of the TTHA Occasional Series _Editing Hardy_ is now available for purchase. I have just received my copy, and after carefully reading it through, I find myself just as impressed with the high quality of the dialogue as when it first took place here on the list. I am sure it will become an enduring source of interest for seasoned Hardy editors, and a valuable learning tool for editors of the future. Thanks and congratulations to all of you who participated in the debate, and an especial thank you to editor Rosemarie Morgan for bringing it all so expertly together. Order forms are available on the TTHA web-site: http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc (TTHA members receive discounts on the Occcasional Series). Betty Cortus hardycor@mailhost.csusm.edu ========== Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 19:05:59 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Dorset cottages Greetings all! Those who are still looking for accommodations for the Hardy conference in July will be pleased to see that TTHA "Promotions" has now posted online three Dorset country dwellings for rental (including one whose owner will provide ground transportation to and from the airport!). Cheers, Rosemarie ========== From: Ajmw1@aol.com Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:22:22 EST Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd. edited by Rosemarie Morgan I have discovered that while this long-awaited edition is not currently listed by Amazon.com, it is listed (and available) on the UK version, Amazon.co.uk. I suspect that the problem is that the publishing date for the US office of Penguin may be later than the publishing date in Britain. However, the ISBN is the same for both the UK and the US. ISBN 0-14-043521-2 Andrew Wheatcroft Department of English Studies University of Stirling ==========