HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO3017 4/1/03 "APRIL 2003 ANNOUNCEMENTS"
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Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 10:07:56 -0600
From: Bill Morgan <wwmorgan@mail.ilstu.edu>
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for April

Earlier this morning, I posted Hardy's "The Sheep-Boy" as the TTHA
Poem of the Month for April 2003. This discussion will be the fourth in a
series dedicated to a group of Hardy poems from the 1920's that seem to
aspire to a kind of camera-like narrative neutrality. I invite your
contributions to an on-line conversation about the poem over the course of
the month.

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 and those of January ("Winter Night
in Woodland"), February ("Ice on the Highway"), and March ("A Light
Snow-Fall After Frost"), a full year of conversations in 2002 about some of
Hardy's sonnets are available at the site: 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"), and December ("We Are Getting to the End" and "Thoughts from
Sophocles").

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 edited for publication 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 April 2003.

cheers,

Bill Morgan

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Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 16:10:49 -0500
From: Robert Schweik <schweikr@localnet.com>
Subject: Re: SEGR Music website

Many thanks!

I'm now back as director of the "Links" and am in the process of a complete
updating of them. When I get to yours, I'll let you know if I have any
problems.

All the best!

Bob

schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com

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From: "Segr Music" <segr@segr-music.net>
Subject: SEGR Music website
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 21:05:51 +0100


Dear Listers This is not intended as a piece of self-advertisement but to advise you if I may that my musical website will be unobtainable for a few days while a new server is arranged to host its multi-megabites. The address (www.segr-music.net) will remain the same, and the contents will not, I hope, be affected by the change. Keep on listening-in, everybody! Best wishes Roy Buckle.

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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 07:15:24 -0700
From: Betty Cortus <hardycor@owl.csusm.edu>
Subject: RE: Reminders


Dear Lori and Others,
To unsubscribe from the Forum please do not write to the list itself. Send
an e-mail to:
HARDY-L-request@mailhost1.csusm.edu
then write the word unsubscribe in the subject or re line, NOT in the body
of the message.

One other gentle reminder: When using the reply function to respond to an
earlier message, please only retain the portion of the message to which
you are replying if it is necessary for clarity. Otherwise please delete
the earlier the message(s), especially if very long.

Many Thanks,
Betty Cortus

The Question Was:
>How do I go about unsubscribing from this list?

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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:24:16 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: The Hardy Review, Volume V (2002)


Greetings All:

Just to let you know that Volume V of *The Hardy Review* (2002) is now at
the printers and will be mailed out to members next week (for non-members
the order form is online at <
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/OrderForms/review.html> --I'm just about to
update this order form).

This number is one of the best--it features not only recent Forum
discussions (by yourselves) on "Hardy's Tragic Heroes," "Biblical Allusions
in *Tess*," "Possible New Hardy Poems," but also POTM discussions on 10
Hardy poems - the thread (you may recall) on the female voice in TH's verse.

More? -- Martin Ray contributes an invaluable & scrupulously-researched
resource -- "Allusions and Annotations to TH's *Life,* " Betty Cortus
writes on regeneration and metamorphosis in some of Hardy's poems, Andrew
Radford convincingly refutes notions of Hardy's resistance to new
technology in "The Marriage of Ancient and Modern in *A Laodicean*," and
there are poems by Bill Morgan, Isobel Robin and Joanne Schweik. Last but
not least the short Sympoisum papers on "Hardy and Dance" from the 2002
Hardy Conference also feature in this edition complete with illustrations
and short musical scores of "The Girl I Left Behind Me" and "The Sergeant's
Song."

For more information please consult *The Checklist* on the Members'
Research Resource :
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm

With every Good Wish,

Rosemarie

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From: SBWright@aol.com
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:26:59 EDT
Subject: Re: The Hardy Review, Volume V (2002)

I can't wait for my Review. I hope my subscription is current; if not, a check will be in the mail instantly.
Best -- Sarah

Sarah Bird Wright
3505 Old Gun Rd. E.
Midlothian, VA 23113
TEL 804/272-1248
FAX 804.330-0137
E-mail: sbwright@aol.com
swright4@richmond.edu

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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:49:09 -0400
From: Robert Schweik <schweikr@localnet.com>
Subject: TTHA Links

My previous message in response to Michael's kind offer prompts me
to add that as of 10 am, 20 April 2003, the TTHA Links will have been
completely revised and brought up to date--both the Links themselves
and the Index.

Bob Schweik

schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com

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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 15:20:55 -0400
From: Shannon Rogers <srogers@mailhost.sju.edu>
Subject: Book Reviews Page News


For those of you who have grown accustomed to fairly regular updates to the
Reviews Page, you may have noticed it has been a while since anything
new has been posted.

The page has recently undergone a complete revamping--it will hopefully be
easier to navigate and more pleasant to view. However, we are experiencing
a few technical difficulties, so to speak, in the changeover. As we hammer
out the minor technicalities, stay tuned and your patience will be rewarded.

Once the new pages are up and running, we will resume regular postings
and will have some new additions to our ever-growing list of reviews,
including the first ever film review---"The Claim" by Philip Allingham.

As always, if you are an author or publisher and have a work you would like
to submit for review or if you would like to submit a review, please contact
me at the email address above.

Best to all, and thanks for your patience!
Shannon

Shannon L. Rogers
General Editor
Book Reviews Page
The Thomas Hardy Association
srogers@sju.edu

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From: "Richard Nemesvari" <rnemesva@stfx.ca>
Subject: Hardy in *Slate*
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:17:22 -0300

I thought the list might be interested that Hardy makes an appearance in the on-line journal *Slate.* The magazine asked several writers and editors to "name a poem they turned to in a time of war," and Robert Pinsky selected "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations.'" There is a short response to the poem, and an audio file of Pinsky reading it. The piece can be located at the following URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2081806 Richard Nemesvari Department of English St. Francis Xavier University rnemesva@stfx.ca

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