HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H01026 3/2/01 "MARCH 2001 ANNOUNCEMENTS" =============================================================== Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 20:00:46 -0600 From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for March Earlier this evening I posted Hardy's "The Pink Frock" and "The Beauty" as the TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for February, 2001. This discussion will be the fourth in a series dedicated to Hardy poems with female narrators. I invite your contributions to a month-long, on-line conversation about these two Hardy lyrics, each of which addresses ideas of female beauty and vanity. 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 site, you will encounter a program called NetForum which will give you the opportunity to read the poems as well as any comments they 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 prepare your message in a word processing program, then copy 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)] and while the conversations from 1999 about the "Emma" poems as well as those concerning "Channel Firing" (January), "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses" (March), "After the Visit" and "To Meet, or Otherwise" (May), and "A Singer Asleep" (July), are currently being edited for publication, the discussions of "Nature's Questioning" (January), "The Mother Mourns" (February), "The Subalterns" (March), "The Lacking Sense" (April), "In a Wood" (May), and "To Outer Nature" and "June Leaves and Autumn" (June), "Wagtail and Baby" and "On a Midsummer Eve" (July), "Afterwards" (August), "Shut Out That Moon" (September), "The Last Chrysanthemum" and "The Year's Awakening" (October), "The Night of the Dance" (November), and "The Dark-Eyed Gentleman" (December), "She At His Funeral" and "Her Confession" (January), and "Tess's Lament" and "The Pine-Planters" (February) are still open, and your contributions are invited. Welcome to the March 2001 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 15:04:07 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Jim Gibson review AH! Pipped to the Post! I was going to make this announcement next week just as soon as I've constructed Richard's Vice President's Box and made modifications to TTHA Bylaws etc, but it's always good to be spurred into action by a fast runner -- so here goes: On behalf of The Thomas Hardy Association I would like to welcome Richard Nemesvari on board TTHA as a member of our international council of directors. Richard was voted in by a happy majority of TTHA directors a few weeks ago and, by common consent, has been invited to host TTHA's LIFE page in place of Tim Dolin who regrets he can no longer fill this post. We are sad to lose Tim and wish him well in the future. On the other hand we are all delighted to have Richard on board -- many of us met him for the first time face to face at the Hardy International Conference last year in Dorset; some, like myself, have worked closely with him over the years -- he and I co-edited the Festchrift for Michael Millgate -- and for the rest he will be well known (as a subscriber to this List) for his erudite and often spirited comments segments of which are published in both *The Hardy Review*'s "Forum" section and TTHA's *Occasional Series*. We looked forward with great enthusiasm to Richard's new "LIFE" which will focus on Hardyan matters biographical and literary and, if the observations posted below are anything to go by, a good deal else besides worthy of inclusion on such a page. Good Luck Richard! And thank you for your continuing support and creative input: the world of Hardy lovers will certainly be the richer for your presence in the Association. Cheers! Rosemarie Morgan President. aAt 11:40 AM 3/9/01 -0400, you wrote: > >Hi Bill, > >I forgot to you ask you something in my last message, so here I am again. In your >email to Rosemarie below you mention a review-essay by Jim Gibson on Hardy >biography, and particularly on the Seymour-Smith tome. I've got a few corker >reviews tucked into my copy of the book too (Samuel Hynes, Keith Wilson, William >Keith), but I blush to say that I don't have Jim's. Could you tell me where to find >it? Since I'm in the transition of taking over the LIFE page, I was thinking about >including reviews on the site (copyright willing), or if/when possible linking to >them, and obviously this would be a good one to include. Thanks for your help. >Take care. > > Richard > > >Bill Morgan wrote: > >> Hi, RM-- >> >> I have a pristine copy of Seymour-Smith's Hardy that I'll be happy to >> contribute to this cause. I admit, however, that I am a little reluctant, >> since the book is so unreliable on many points. What I propose to do is to >> include a photocopy of Jim Gibson's cautionary review-essay on Hardy >> biography in general and on Seymour-Smith in particular. I'd hate for some >> unsuspecting Romanian scholar without access to other biographies to think >> that Seymour-Smith was to be trusted as authoritative. >> >> Anyhow, the book is here, complete with Jim Gibson's admonitory essay; >> where do I send it? >> >> Caught my first bonefish on the fly rod! Didn't score on the larger >> tarpon, however, though I caught one small one (about 17 inches). No score >> on the other of the fly-fishing triumvirate, the Permit: never even saw one. >> >> Hope you're well. I'm starting work tomorrow on the TTHA report for the >> THJournal. Simon will have it in good time. >> >> cheers, >> >> Bill ========== Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:45:55 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT Greetings All! This is to bring you the good news that the recently inaugurated TTHA "Members' Research" page is now sporting the first of the *Collected Poems* items: "Time's Laughingstocks"! The other TH volumes of poetry will follow as soon as they have been formatted in html. For new TTHA members, simply type in your membership number (a one-time operation which will last for one year) and you will immediately be able access both the "Checklist" (publications on TH) and "Time's Laughingstocks." Please ensure that your browser is up-to-date (2000) and please also note that the downloading of poems has been deactivated for reasons of copyright -- all are published with the page number reference to James Gibson's edition of *The Complete Poems.* Grateful thanks to Betty Cortus for her scrupulous copy-editing and to Seth Lachterman for providing the software for internet publication. With every good wish, Rosemarie Morgan Rosemarie ========== From: Dennis Taylor Cc: ulin+@pitt.edu Subject: call for Barnes papers for MLA : Don Ulin and Dennis Taylor are looking for one or two more individuals to join a special session at MLA on William Barnes in recognition of his 200th birthday. Topics may address any aspect of Barnes' work as a poet, wood engraver, linguist, ordained minister, or otherwise. Especially welcome are papers that situate Barnes culturally or historically, draw connections between Barnes and other writers, or bring more recent critical work to bear on this relatively unexamined figure. One of the papers for this session examines Hardy's various refigurings of Barnes in relation to development of Hardy's own career. The other deals with Barnes' philology, linking him with Hopkins, Hardy, the OED and perhaps Joyce (through Finnegan's Wake). Proposals do not need to addressthese issues, although they certainly may. Proposals may be brief and/or informal, but they need to be submitted immediately since the deadline for proposing special sessions to MLA is April 7. Send proposals or questions to Don Ulin at ulin@pitt.edu. (MLA will be in New Orleans, c. Dec. 27-30, 2001) Thank you. Don Ulin Assistant Professor, English University of Pittsburgh at Bradford 300 Campus Drive Bradford, PA 16701 Phone: 814-362-0243 FAX: 814-362-5094 Email: ulin+@pitt.edu ------ Dennis Taylor taylor@bc.edu Boston College ========== Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:07:37 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Announcement Greetings: Visitors to Wessex should check out the new accommodations on TTHA "Promotions" (also accessible via TTHA "News Updates". Cheers, RM Rosemarie ========== Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 15:17:52 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: BOOKS and Stuff! TTHA's annual publication, The Hardy Review, Volume III, 2000 has now been mailed out to all TTHA members. If you haven't yet received your complimentary copy please contact me soonest: rm82@pantheon.yale.edu ==========