HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO2052 9/1/02 "SEPTEMBER 2002 ANNOUNCEMENTS" ================================================================ Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 22:14:44 -0500 From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for September Earlier today, I posted Hardy's "In the Old Theatre, Fiesole," "Rome: On the Palatine," and "Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter" as the TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for September 2002. This month's discussion is the sixth in a series dedicated to Hardy's sonnets. I invite your contributions to a month-long on-line conversation about three of Hardy's sonnets from a sequence of poems called "Poems of Pilgrimage," based on his Italian journey of April 1887. 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 conversations about Hardy's sonnets available at the site are April ("Hap"), May ("At a Lunar Eclipse"), June ("She, to Him, I-IV"), July ("Her Reproach" and "Her Confession"), and August ("To an Actress" and "To an Impersonator of Rosalind." 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 also posted at the site and open for contributions until sometime later in the year when they will be published in *The Hardy Review*. 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 September 2002. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:06:00 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: GOOD NEWS I'm back again with some good news: The InteLex Corporation -- which has just brought out the 7 vols of Hardy's Letters (Purdy/Millgate) on CDRom has settled on a discount for TTHA members. Justin writes, "We'll give a $30 discount to all confirmed TTHA members who purchase "The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy" by Dec. 31 of this year. Best wishes, Justin" Justin Cober E-Mail: cober@nlx.com InteLex Corporation Tel: 434-970-2286 ext. 300 P.O. Box 859 Fax: 434-979-5804 Charlottesville, VA 22902 http://www.nlx.com ========== Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:15:48 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: MORE GOOD NEWS! This is quite a day! The Good News keeps on a-coming in. My mail has just arrived and with it a packet from Australia. It's from TTHA member, Isobel Robin, and contains her first published volume of verse, entitled *Freud's Back Yard* (Five Islands Press Pty Ltd, 2002). Heartiest Congratulations Isobel! TTHA members might recall that Isobel published one of her poems, "Time Lapse" in *The Hardy Review,Volume III* (2000), and going even further back than that (1996) she gave a paper at the Hardy International Conference in a Symposium I chaired: Betty Cortus was also on the speakers' panel that year & gave a paper on ""A Night of Questionings" (we met each other for the very first time at this event). Isobel's paper was entitled, "The Immanent Will," and was subsequently published (as was Betty's) in *The Hardy Review, Volume I (1998). Isobel says, in her accompanying letter today, that her publishers have signed her up for another volume in 3 years time -- she says she's not too sure about that, being close on 80. What a woman! TTHA will celebrate this wonderful news by publishing another of Isobel's poems in this year's *Hardy Review.* Again, Congratulations to Isobel -- we all look forward to 2005 and her next volume! With every good wish, Rosemarie ========== Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 07:07:13 -0700 From: Betty Cortus Subject: A Reminder Dear Members, >From time to time it seems I have to remind members of an oft-neglected point of "netiquette." When you are replying to a previous message and using the reply function, PLEASE do not include the entire earlier message, especially if it is a very long one. Just select the actual passages you are referring to, if that is necessary for purposes of clarity. Sometimes one even finds a whole string of prior messages attached to the new one. I have pointed out many times that this practice fills up people's mail boxes with unwanted material. Everday day I recieve messages returned from overfilled mail boxes. Please ensure that others receive their Forum messages in a timely manner. Many Thanks, Betty Cortus ========== Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:30:54 -0700 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Another Reminder Dear Members, I see the time has come for another oft-repeated reminder. If you wish to unsubscribe from the list, please do NOT use the reply function, or write to the list itself to send your message. Subscribing and unsubscribing use a DIFFERENT e-address: HARDY-L-request@mailhost1.csusm.edu simply write the word unsubscribe in the subject line and you will be successfully unsubscribed. Many Thanks, Betty Cortus ========== Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:18:40 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: OYEZ! OYEZ! Greetings all: This is to announce that the Oak Knoll Press (a scholarly book publisher) and The British Library have co-published "Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study" by Richard L. Purdy edited by Charles P. C. Pettit. This work brings the 1954 first edition up-to-date with over five decades of new bibliographical reference additions all contained in a new two-part supplement. See TTHA's Promotions page or go direct to: http://www.oakknoll.com/pressrel/hardy.html The Oak Knoll Press will offer a discount to members of The Thomas Hardy Association. Cheers, Rosemarie Morgan ========== From: "harrybatt" Subject: Re: OYEZ! OYEZ! Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:24:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Rosemarie: Thanks for the tip on this edition. Your vigilance is appreciated. /s/John Bridell, Minneapolis ========== Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 22:41:05 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re:Apologies -- this went off precipitately! PS: OYEZ! Sorry about the (last) unfinished posting: Greetings again: This is to say that Oak Knoll have asked me to specify that the TTHA discount will be $7.50 (thus, book price, to you, will be $57.50) and that since they almost never give discounts to anyone you must, upon ordering, quote this discount figure together with your TTHA membership number (if you have forgotten it please email me and I'll supply). See also: http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Promotions/promotio.htm Cheers, Rosemarie Morgan ========== From: "harrybatt" Subject: Re: Some Snapshots Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:01:44 -0500 ROSEMARIE; Tousen tak for posting the snapshots from the conference. At last I can prove to my friends and grandchildren that there really is TTHA John Bridell, Minneapolis ==========