HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO2062 10/1/02 "OCTOBER 2002 ANNOUNCEMENTS" ================================================================ Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 10:21:14 -0500 From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for October Earlier this morning, I posted Hardy's "Embarcation" and "Departure, " two of his poems on the Boer War, as the TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for October 2002. This month's discussion is the seventh in a series dedicated to Hardy's sonnets. I invite your contributions to a month-long on-line conversation about two of Hardy's sonnets from a sequence called "War Poems" and offering his critique of the war effort. 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"), August ("To an Actress" and "To an Impersonator of Rosalind" and September ("In the Old Theatre, Fiesole," "Rome: On the Palatine," and "Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter"). 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 October 2002. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 00:44:00 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: TTHA Discount Greetings all, And thank you for your many personal enquiries for the Purdy Book. I can only direct you to PROMOTIONS which shows a: $7.50 discount to members! Book price now only $57.50 Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study, by Richard L. Purdy, edited by Charles Pettit The book order form can be reached by clicking on the PROMOTIONS listings. Thank you for your continuing interest, Cheers, Rosemarie ========== Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 22:06:04 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re:TH Society Page Greetings all-- Just to say that TTHA has removed the link on its front page to The Thomas Hardy Society's website. The THSoc website has been dysfunctional now for over three weeks. When it resumes operations TTHA will renew the link. With every good wish, Rosemarie Morgan ========== Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:42:50 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: GOOD NEWS! Good News: Jim Gibson has just telephoned from Dorchester to say that the Thomas Hardy Society meeting to elect new officers following the AGM resignations (and Helen's appointment to the Council) in July concluded about an hour ago (5pm UK time). Furse Swann was successfully elected as new chair and Stephen Mottram will be succeeded by a new Treasurer. Strong support at the election was given by Martin Ray who travelled from Aberdeen, Scotland, for the occasion, and by David Selwyn, who journeyed from Bath to Dorchester* in the same cause. It is hoped that Andrew Leah at Max Gate will accept the office of Vice Chair, in place of John Pentney (I will keep you posted). Heartiest congratulations to all, and the very best of luck to the Hardy Society's new Council of Management. Cheers, Rosemarie Morgan *Bathsheba's virtual journey to meet with Troy, in reverse. ========== Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:45:47 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re:Further to the "Hardy in Cambridge" Mini Conference Greetings All: Just to say that the flyer for the "Hardy In Cambridge" Mini-Conference has, today, been posted on TTHA's "News Updates" http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/updates.htm where the original design format is retained (for printing out and posting in your college library or message board). Large numbers of applicants are now flooding in for these limited places, so do be prompt with your own application if you want to secure a place. The full agenda will be published here in the next few days. Dollar cheques are acceptable (see application form on http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/updates.htm). Let's Celebrate The Hardy Association's First Collaborative Conference with The Thomas Hardy Society! YAY! Cheers, Rosemarie ========== Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:29:13 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: MORE GOOD NEWS! Greetings Everyone -- More Good News! The Thomas Hardy Association in collaboration with The Thomas Hardy Society presents the following: The Thomas Hardy Society and The Thomas Hardy Association invite you to ÎTHOMAS HARDY IN CAMBRIDGEâ A CONFERENCE AT MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK Monday 28th Wednesday 30th July 2003 Talks, Walks, Lectures and Poetry Readings Enjoy the communal spirit of living in the 15th Century Magdalene College (where Hardy was made an Honorary Fellow), combined with an exciting programme of lectures, a chance to view the manuscripts of Moments of Vision, Jude the Obscure, and Times Laughingstocks and Augustus Johnâs portrait at the Fitzwilliam Museum. There will also be the opportunity to explore this fine university city and to trace where Hardy walked when he visited his friend and mentor, Horace Moule. Places are limited, so please book early. If you would like any further information, please contact Helen Gibson, The Thomas Hardy Society, P.O.Box 1438, Dorchester DT1 1YH (t/f: +44 (0)1305 251501, or (0)1300-341434). BOOKING FORM Please reserve me/us a place(s) for ÎThomas Hardy in Cambridgeâ Full conference membership from 28-30th July 2003 is £195 per person. (This covers all conference events, 2 nights bed/breakfast, plus 2 lunches and 2 dinners and coffee/tea) or Non-residential membership from 28-30th July 2003 is £90 per person. (This covers all conference events, 2 lunches, coffee and tea) Dinners can be booked separately at £27.50 each) I/We enclose a cheque/bank draft for £25 per person deposit and will pay the balance not later than 1 July 2003. (Cheques payable to: The Thomas Hardy Society. Or I wish to pay the deposit/in full by credit card (VISA/MasterCard/EuroCard) Card No: Name············ Signed··········· Date········ Address····································································· ······· Please send this form, together with your deposit if paying by cheque/bank draft, to: The Thomas Hardy Society, PO Box 1438, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1YH (t/f: +44 (O)1305-251501 ========== Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:13:52 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Book Offer Greetings everyone, This week I received the following from 'TAYLOR & FRANCIS BOOKS, Routledge -- and just to say that TTHA members will be given a 20% discount. on *Cancelled Words.* This book is expensive in the bookstores because it features many facsimile pages from Hardy's MS of FFMC, so the electronic version may (?) be the cheaper way to go (apologies for seeming to blow my own trumpet): ____________________- Dear Rosemarie Morgan Taylor & Francis congratulates you on your successful venture into the electronic medium and is proud to include your publication *Cancelled Words* for sale through our online eBookstore. To access: visit the Taylor & Francis eBookstore at: http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk If you have any queries, you can email for technical help at helpdesk@dpsl.net. If you have more general questions, please reply to me at dan.penny@tandf.co.uk. Thanks and best wishes Dan Penny eBooks Manager www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk ========== From: Martin Ray Sender: enl090@abdn.ac.uk Subject: Re: Hardy Journal Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:20:57 +0000 (GMT) Dear all: A brief note to announce that the October issue of the Hardy Journal has been distributed today. We are a little later than usual because of the numerous last-minute changes brought about by the need to reflect the decisions of the council meeting in mid-October. As usual, do please let me know if you haven't received your copy in reasonable time. Best wishes Martin Dr Martin Ray School of English and Film Studies University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 2UB Scotland, UK m.ray@abdn.ac.uk Editor, Thomas Hardy Journal ==========