HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO2048 7/11/02 "AUGUST 2002 ANNOUNCEMENTS" =============================================================== Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:28:53 -0500 From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for August Earlier today, I posted Hardy's "To an Impersonator of Rosalind" and "To an Actress" as the TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for August 2002. I will be out of the country and away from my books on August 1; hence this early posting. This month's discussion will be the fifth in a series dedicated to Hardy's sonnets. I invite your contributions to a month-long on-line conversation about two more of Hardy's earliest works (the poems date from 1866-7) in the sonnet form. 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 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 poems as well as any comments they 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. Besides this month's discussion, the other convesations about Hardy's sonnets are April ("Hap"), May ("At a Lunar Eclipse"), June ("She, to Him, I-IV"), and July ("Her Reproach" and "Her Confession"). The discussions of Hardy's memorial and holiday poems from August 2001 ("The Last Signal"), September (Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius" and "Shelley's Skylark"), October ("At a House in Hampstead" and "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back"), November ("To Shakespeare: After Three Hundred Years"), December ("Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden" and "George Meredith"), January 2002 ("A New Year's Eve in War Time"), February ("The Oxen"), March ("A Drizzling Easter Morning") are posted at the site and open for contributions. I expect soon to have reconstructed 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") and when I have completed the work on them I will post them as well. All of the older discussions will remain posted 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). 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" have been edited and published in *The Hardy Review*, IV (Summer 2001). All of these publications are available free or at a discounted price to TTHA members and may be ordered by others using an on-line form available at the main TTHA page (see the URL above). Welcome to the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion for August 2002. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 11:25:37 +0100 To: "Michael Barry" From: Birgit Plietzsch Subject: Fwd: Re: Spammers Cc: Betty and/or John Cortus Dear Michael Maybe it is me, but I personally think messages such as this should not be sent to the entire list. They are not relevant to Hardy and therefore also do not conform to the "Policies and Guidelines for Subscribers" of the Forum. You will be able to find this document by following the link Forum Discussion Group from the TTHA front page. The problem with messages such as these is not only that they clutter up our mailboxes unnecessarily but that in many cases these messages themselves have to be classed as spam as often they are sent out as mass mailings and to recipients who do not wish to get these messages in the first place. Please feel free to get back to me if you would like me to go into more detail. Best wishes Birgit Plietzsch (TTHA Internet Advisor) ==========