HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO2077 12/1/02 "DECEMBER 2002 ANNOUNCEMENTS" ================================================================ Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 12:15:44 -0600 From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for December A few minutes ago, I posted Hardy's "We Are Getting to the End" and "Thought from Sophocles," two of his late sonnets, as the TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for December 2002. This month's discussion is the ninth and last in a series dedicated to Hardy's sonnets. I invite your contributions to a month-long on-line conversation about two of Hardy's darker philosophical poems. 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," September ("In the Old Theatre, Fiesole," "Rome: On the Palatine," and "Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter"), October ("Embarcation" and "Departure), November ("The Pity of It" and "Often When Warring"). 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*. The 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") will soon be published in *The Hardy Review*, V. 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 December 2002. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 08:30:30 -0500 From: Shannon Rogers Subject: New on the Book Reviews Page Greetings All, Some new reviews have just been posted to the Book Reviews Page that you might find interesting. All three concern a book that has proven to be a source of controversy, both in the Journal and now, here on the BRP. Alan Whitworth's edition of "Memories of Church Restoration" by Thomas Hardy, O.M. has been received with mixed reviews. Claudius Beatty's negative review in the Journal prompted a response from Whitworth himself, which now appears here on the BRP. In addition, there are two reviews found only here, by Peter Coxon and Carol Farrelly, that provide a wider range of responses to this edition. Enjoy! Shannon Shannon L. Rogers General Editor Book Reviews Page The Thomas Hardy Association srogers@sju.edu ========== Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 00:06:50 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re:Happy Holidays! Greetings All! And Happy Holidays. In response to enquirers I wish to apologise for the late publication of *The Hardy Review, V, 2002* which won't now be out until January 2003. This past year has been a particularly active one for TTHA and for myself -- there was the Hardy Intermational Conference in July which involved some of us in the Symposium on Hardy and Dance, not to mention the political matters adhering to AGM issues; then there have been organisational changes within TTHA itself together with an exciting new project which will be announced in the New Year -- and so it goes. The impetus never ceases to astonish me and the creative energy of all involved at TTHA simply sweeps one away. It appears, in email form on my desk each morning-- enquiries galore, ideas in profusion, complaints in fair number and always, unerringly, the stouthearted support and scholarly expertise of the TTHA team --at the ready-- loyal, sensitive, considerate, often breathtakingly inventive and always, but always, generous in heart and -- I tell you! no one could be more proud, more delighted (and surely, no more often overwhelmed) than I am by the sheer marvel of it all! When a dear friend (who is now listening to this) told me way back in the fall that he would be using TTHA organisation as a cybernetic model of learning and communication at the UNESCO summit meeting in Paris a month or so ago I could only marvel! Could this be Thomas Hardy? Hardly? ( pun intended). But yes! It was the spirit of the thing --simply. The spirit that inspires the TTHA team to produce wonders like the Poem of the Month (POTM), the various and highly individualised pages on Drama, Biography, Short Stories, the matchless Checklist on the ever-expanding "Members" page (I had such a lovely greetings card from Jeanie, today, whose excellent 1990s Bibiography has recently been added to the Members' Page -- she is thrilled! -- so are we!). What more can I say other than to offer the warmest of warm thankyous to the TTHA team? We have our ups and downs just like any other organisation. But the exceptional character of TTHA is that we all work together, in constant communication with each other -- sometimes gloriously, sometimes ratfaced --- and never ever disloyally, never discourteously, never without humility and the aspiration to learn, never without generosity of spirit. If I had to use a now-trashy word I would say it is all "amazing." I think The Thomas Hardy Association is amazing. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I will try to match the excellence of my colleagues in my production of the forthcoming publication of *The Hardy Review, V, 2002* Blessings and Peace, Rosemarie ==========