HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H02008 2/1/02 "FEBRUARY 2002 ANNOUNCEMENTS" ============================================================== Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:53:52 -0600 From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for February Earlier today, I posted Hardy's "The Oxen" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for February 2002. This month's discussion will be the second in a short series dedicated to Hardy's holiday poems. I invite your contributions to a month-long on-line conversation about one of Hardy's best known and most admired lyrics. 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://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS Please note the new URL and change any links which may still show the old address. Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month site, you will encounter a program called WebBoard, 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 wish, and then post it by using the button labeled Post the Message. 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 WebBoard. 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. At the present time, this month's discussion and last month's concerning "A New Year's Eve in War Time" are the only ones available at the site. I intend, however, to reconstruct the earlier discussions of poems with female narrators ("The Dark-Eyed Gentleman," "She At His Funeral," "Her Confession," "Tess's Lament," "The Pine-Planters," "The Pink Frock," "The Beauty," "I Rose and Went to Rou'tor Town," "An Upbraiding," "The Chapel-Organist," "A Sunday-Morning Tragedy," and "A Trampwoman's Tragedy") as well as those concerning Hardy's memorial poems ("The Last Signal," "Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats," "Shelley's Skylark," "At a House in Hampstead," "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back," and "To Shakespeare After Three Hundred Years") and post them at the site until such time as they are edited and published in either *The Hardy Review* or in one of TTHA's Occasional Papers. 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)]. Likewise, the conversations from 1999 about the "Emma" poems have been published as the second of the TTHA Occasional Series. And those concerning "Channel Firing," "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses," "After the Visit," "To Meet, or Otherwise," and "A Singer Asleep" have been published in *The Hardy Review*, III (Summer 2000). All of these publications are available and may be ordered using a form available at the main TTHA page (see the URL above). The discussions of "Nature's Questioning," "The Mother Mourns," "The Subalterns," "The Lacking Sense," "In a Wood," "To Outer Nature," "June Leaves and Autumn," "Wagtail and Baby," "On a Midsummer Eve," "Afterwards," "Shut Out That Moon," "The Last Chrysanthemum," "The Year's Awakening," and "The Night of the Dance" are currently being edited and will be published shortly in *The Hardy Review*, IV. Welcome to the February 2002 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion. cheers, Bill Morgan =========== Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 21:58:42 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re:Dorset Accommodation Greetings-- Just another reminder that the office to write to for Dorset rentals and B&B accommodation for the summer Hardy conference is: Conference Accommodations Officer, Thomas Hardy Society, PO Box 1438, Dorchester, Dorset, DT11YH, UK ---------- ---------- TTHA *Promotions* page at: http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Promotions/promotio.htm still has SOME rentals available but they are going fast. So, Book Now! See you soon in Dorchester! Cheers, Rosemarie ========== From: "Eustacia" Subject: CFP: Creativity, Culture and Environment (April 2002; September 2002) (UK) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 23:56:43 -0000 I thought some of the forum members may be interested in the CFP below: CALL FOR PAPERS CREATIVITY, CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT 6, 7, 8 September 2002 University of Leeds, Bretton Hall Campus, Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK Abstracts are invited to arrive by 22, April 2002, on any aspect of the conference theme. Although this is the third biannual conference of the UK branch of the Association for Studies in Literature and Environment (ASLE), this invitation includes any forms of creativity in the arts and any cultural representations of environment. Ecocriticism, ecofeminism and ecopoetics will be strongly represented. Bretton Hall Campus is an eighteenth-century country house set in a landscaped park with a Nature Reserve and is home to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Registration fee for all attendees is £60. Residential fees will be £144. Cheques should be made payable to 'University of Leeds'. Send abstracts (and, later, fees) to Dr Terry Gifford, University of Leeds, Bretton Hall Campus, Wakefield, WF4 4LG, UK. If you plan on attending, directions and general information about Bretton Hall can be found at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/about/bretton.htm If you require more information, please contact Dr. Terry Gifford: t.gifford@leeds.ac.uk ============ Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:07:10 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Notice I've been asked to post this notice: _________ > > Dear Rosemarie > > As the secretary of the recently-established Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship, I > wanted to let you know that the details of our first conference - to be held > at Oxford in September 2002 - are now available on our website: > > www.sassoonery.demon.co > .uk/sassoonsocy.htm > > Yours sincerely * Deborah Fisher ========== Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:03:09 +0000 From: Birgit Plietzsch Subject: Novels Page Dear All This is just a brief note to inform you that the Novels Page is, owing to server problems, once more offline. In order to make it available online again, I will have to restore it from scratch. I'll let you know once this process is finished and the site is up and running again. Hopefully it won't be long. Apologies for any inconvenience this causes! Birgit ========== Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 21:31:05 +0000 From: Birgit Plietzsch Subject: Novels Page Dear All This is to say that the Novels Page has moved its location and is now back on-line. After the sudden and unexpected closure of the TTHA-account by Martin Luther University, Germany, last week I am grateful to the University of St Andrews that has kindly offered web space and is the new host of Novels. The new URL is: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~ttha Please update your bookmarks! Best wishes Birgit ========== Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 09:54:42 -0500From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: A Notice Mime-Version: 1.0 Greetings all: Just to say that information about the portrait of Hardy by Eves is now posted on TTHA's "PROMOTIONS" page where it properly belongs along with all those other good Hardy-related things. The owner of the portrait, Catherine Chome-Wilson, tells me that she's had several enquiries following TTHA's last posting but that she's still looking for a collector who would be interested in acquiring this beautiful painting. For further details please go to: http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Promotions/promotio.htm With every good wish, Rosemarie Morgan ========== Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:45:13 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re:Important Notice Greetings all: This to announce to all TTHA members that the *Members' Research and Resources* page which holds the up-to-the-minute "Checklist" Bibliography archives, *The Complete Poems* and other research tools, has today undergone its annual security check. TTHA members will be notified later this evening of their new password permitting them continuing access to these archives. TTHA wishes to thank Seth Lachterman for his good work in maintaining the security and constant updating of this scholarly resource. Please also note that TTHA's *Novels* page is now hosted by St Andrews University, Scotland, where Birgit Plietzsch continues as director of this page. TTHA wishes to thank Birgit for establishing new links to "Novels" throughout the Association's various websites and pages. Should any problems arise for TTHA members or site visitors concerning the above remodellings please contact: Birgit, for *Novels* issues: Myself, for *Checklist*/membership Issues: With every good wish, Rosemarie Morgan ========== Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 17:19:58 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: REMINDER Dear HARDY-L Members, Allow me once again to remind you of the procedure to follow if you change your e-mail address, change your server, or wish to unsubscribe from this list. You must first unsubscribe, then subscribe again after you have completed the change if that is your wish. I do not have the ability to do this for you. 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