HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H03045 6/1/03 "JUNE 2003 ANNOUNCEMENTS"
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Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 20:14:09 -0500
From: Bill Morgan <wwmorgan@mail.ilstu.edu>
Subject: TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for June
Earlier today, I posted Hardy's "A Backward Spring," "Last Week in
October," and "Shortening Days at the Homestead" as the TTHA Poem(s) of the
Month for June 2003. This discussion will be the sixth in a series
dedicated to a group of Hardy poems, mostly 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 poems 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"), March ("A Light Snow-Fall
After Frost"), April ("The Sheep-Boy"), and May ("A Sheep Fair" and "Last
Look round St. Martin's Fair"), 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") have just been 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 June 2003.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
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Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 22:07:04 -0500
From: Bill Morgan <wwmorgan@mail.ilstu.edu>
Subject: New URL for the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
Dear members of the list:
Illinois State University, which generously hosts the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page, is about to retire one of its aging servers, so the files that constitute the Poetry Page have been moved to a new address:
<http://www.ilstu.edu/~wwmorgan/>http://www.ilstu.edu/~wwmorgan/
The old one will shortly become non-functional. Since the new address is already operational, this is probably a good time to update any links, Netscape Bookmarks, or Internet Explorer Favorites.
This also seems to me a good time to remind users of this listserv of the various divisions of the Hardy Poetry Page:
(1) The Thomas Hardy Poem of the Month Discussions:
<http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS/>http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS/
(2) Mark Simons's excellent illustrated resource for book collectors, called Collecting Thomas Hardy's Poetry:
<http://pages.ripco.net/~mws/collect/Collect.html>http://pages.ripco.net/~mws/collect/Collect.html
(3) Dennis Taylor's even-handed and thoughtful essay comparing the editorial policies of the Gibson and Hynes editions of Hardy's poetry, Authoritative Texts of Hardy's Poetry:
<http://www.ilstu.edu/~wwmorgan/Authoritative%20Texts.htm>http://www.ilstu.edu/~wwmorgan/Authoritative%20Texts.htm
and (4) the division dedicated to Teaching Hardy's poetry:
<http://www.ilstu.edu/~wwmorgan/teaching.htm>http://www.ilstu.edu/~wwmorgan/teaching.htm
This last division consists of a questionnaire and database for teachers of Hardy's poetry at all grade levels
<http://uro.its.ilstu.edu/tha/>http://uro.its.ilstu.edu/tha/
and a WebBoard available for teachers wishing to confer about teaching Hardy's poetry:
<http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~tthateachers/>http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~tthateachers/
And of course visitors to the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page can link from it back to the main TTHA Page
<http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm>http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm
from which they can reach all the other TTHA-sponsored pages (novels, drama, short stories, life, etc.) and literally hundreds of other Hardy-related websites described and evaluated on the TTHA Links page:
<http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Links/linksone/Links.htm>http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Links/linksone/Links.htm
cheers,
Bill Morgan
Director, Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
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From: Martin Ray <enl090@abdn.ac.uk>
Sender: enl090@abdn.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Hardy Journal
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:52:05 +0100 (BST)
Dear All:
Just a note to say that the May issue of the Journal was
posted last week, so you should be receiving it in the next
few days. Do please let me know if it doesn't arrive
shortly.
All the best,
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
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Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 07:09:49 -0700
From: Cortus <hardycor@owl.csusm.edu>
Subject: Reminder
Dear Hardyans,
As we have a number of new members--welcome to them, by the way--it is time
again to issue a couple of reminders about the Forum.
1: Adding attachments to messages sent to the Forum is not allowed, and
any messages with attachments coming to the Forum are suspect, and should
be deleted immediately.
2: When using the reply function to respond to an earlier message, please
do not include the whole of the earlier message(s). If it is necessary for
clarity just retain the small portion of the earlier message to which you
are actually referring. I am constantly bombarded with returned mail
because of overfilled mailboxes. This is one way we can help to eliminate
this problem.
Many Thanks,
Betty Cortus
hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
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Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:52:55 +0100
From: Martin Ray <m.ray@abdn.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Allusions CD
Dear All:
Can I please express my thanks to Shannon for the wonderfully professional
job she has done in producing the Allusions CD. It is a lovely piece of work.
Martin
Martin Ray
School of English
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UB
m.ray@abdn.ac.uk
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:25:18 -0400
From: Shannon Rogers <srogers@sju.edu>
Subject: RE: Allusions CD
Thank you, Martin, for the kind words, but I must protest that all of the
and invaluable research work (which is really the hard part) is Martins and his
efforts should be roundly applauded. Thank *you* Martin!
Cheers,
Shannon
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:02:14 -0700
From: Betty Cortus <hardycor@owl.csusm.edu>
Subject: Suspect Word
Dear All,
As laughable as it may seem, the filters at some servers are rejecting
postings with the heading given by Jon, Rosemarie, and Bill concerning that
valuable set of books Jon is offering for sale. Apparently it is the word
WES--- that is causing the trouble. I feel a little ridiculous suggesting
this, especially to a group of Hardyans, to whom that word comes to mind
constantly one way or another, if only in reference to Hardy's dog, but
could you please use another heading for further discussions on this matter.
Best Wishes,
Betty
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:55:11 -0400
From: Shannon Rogers <srogers@sju.edu>
Subject: Fwd: Re: Suspect Word
Ahh, the infamous "nanny" feature of software. This very same issue recently
came up on VICTORIA-L, which you might find interesting. There's a definite
point where this pc urge to protect everyone starts to eat away at free speech,
academic freedom, and basic expression.
I don't think Terry Meyers will mind the cross posting, because it helps to bolster his
argument. Apparently someone's software rejected sending a message, quoting
Conrad as using the word "idiot". To foil the software, he had to hyphenate. Below
is Terry Meyers' response and a link to his excellent chronicle of his efforts to be
a Swinburne scholar in a bizarre atmosphere:
Cheers,
Shannon
Subject: doing 19th C. scholarship in i-diotic states To: VICTORIA@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
[Read "i-diot" without the hyphen. This University has software that
will not permit transmission of forbidden words. Evidently this word
is considered hate speech. Soon perhaps the words will be removed
from the dictionaries here also.]
I thought Virginia took the cake in the category of Silliest
State in the Union --see my trials in trying to work on Swinburne
without any First Amendment rights and without academic freedom, both
done in, and proudly so, by Virginia's legislators:
<http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/02so/02somey.htm>http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/02so/02somey.htm
But the contest with Oregon may be a close one......
Terry L. Meyers voice-mail: 757-221-3932
English Department fax: 757-221-1844
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:03:50 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: "Hardy at Cambridge": conference hosted by The Thomas
Hardy Association & The Hardy Society
Greetings all:
Just to say that the agenda has now been finalised for the "Hardy at
Cambridge" conference hosted by The Thomas Hardy Association & The Hardy
Society in July.
The updated agenda can be viewed at:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/agendaca.htm
We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge very soon.
With every good wish,
Rosemarie Morgan
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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 17:58:30 -0400
From: Robert Schweik <schweikr@localnet.com>
Subject: Checklist Updates
For those participants in the Forum discussions who are also members
of TTHA, the regular two-week update of the TTHA Checklist of Recent
Hardy Publications will appear on 1 July 2003. If you are not yet a member
of TTHA, this is one of the many reasons to join. Sixteen scholars from
around the world contribute to updating the TTHA Checklist of Recent
Hardy Publications.
The TTHA Checklist is the most up-to-date bibliography on Hardy
available anywhere, and, with its annotations, one of the most
informative. Beginning with the Checklist for 15 July 2003 it will be
even more informative: Checklist items added after the previous
Checklist posting will be identified by triple asterisks *** in order to
make identification of new items easier. Of course the whole Checklist
(2000 to the present) is searchable by author, title, or keyword. And
for Hardy scholarship from 1990 to 1999, Jeannie Smith's bibliography
is available to fill that gap.
For anyone wanting to know about the most recent scholarly comment
on Hardy--including listings of books, parts of books, articles, reviews,
reviews of previously published books, scholarly databases, and even such
matters as letters to the editors of both the Thomas Hardy Journal and the
Hardy Review--the one place to look is the TTHA Checklist--just one part of
the TTHA Members' Research Resources.
For the Checklist team,
Bob Schweik
Robert Schweik Department of English State University of New York Fredonia, NY 14063 USA schweik@fredonia.edu schweikr@localnet.com
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:33:32 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: "Hardy at Cambridge": conference hosted by The Thomas
Hardy Association & The Hardy Society
HOT NEWS!
Due to ill-health we've had a last-minute cancellation for this conference.
Anyone interested should email me asap.
Many thanks,
Rosemarie
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:32:07 -0400
From: Shannon Rogers <srogers@sju.edu>
Subject: New on the REVIEWS Page
Just posted to the REVIEWS Page, in the Members Research Resources section, are the following three
reviews:
Carol Farrelly's review of Rosemarie Morgan piece in the Fall 2002 issue of Victorian Poetry, "Thomas Hardy".
Rosemarie Morgan reviewing the new edition of Purdy's Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study, edited by Charles P.C. Pettit
and
Betty Cortus's review of Norman Page's Thomas Hardy: The Novels.
The Reviews Page can be accessed through the MRR link on the TTHA front page: <http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm>http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm
If you are a member, but do not have your access number, or if you are interested in becoming a member of TTHA,
please contact Rosemarie Morgan: rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
If you are an author or publisher and would like to submit materials for review, please contact me at: shannon.rogers@sju.edu
Cheers,
Shannon
Shannon L. Rogers General Editor Book Reviews Page The Thomas Hardy Association shannon.rogers@sju.edu
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