HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H03057 7/1/03 "JULY 2003 ANNOUNCEMENTS"
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Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 14:53:57 -0500
From: Bill Morgan <wwmorgan@mail.ilstu.edu>
Subject: TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for July and August


Earlier today, I posted Hardy's "No Buyers" and "An East-End
Curate" as the TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for July 2003 as well as "Life and
Death at Sunrise" as the Poem of the Month for August (I will be away on
August 1; hence this early posting). These discussions will be the seventh
and eighth (and August will be the last) 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 July and August.

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"), May ("A Sheep Fair" and "Last Look
round St. Martin's Fair") and June ("A Backward Spring," "Last Week in
October," and "Shortening Days at the Homestead"), 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 July and
August of 2003.

cheers,

Bill Morgan


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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 11:25:31 -0400
From: Shannon Rogers <srogers@sju.edu>
Subject: Reviews Page and author responses


Hello Everyone,

As one of the benefits of the internet, and especially the Forum, is the
immediacy of the flow of ideas and debate--rather like a constantly
running seminar---I wanted to take this opportunity to invite a similar
flow of ideas within the Reviews Page itself. Because of our format,
we have the opportunity to engage in what Bob Schweik has so aptly
phrased "a genuine give-and-take debate between reviewer and reviewed
author", I would like to invite responses from any authors whose work
has been reviewed on the page.

Because the Reviews Page is on the MRR site, and requires password
access, if you are one of the author's in question and are not a TTHA
member, I can provide a copy of the review of your work to you upon
request.

I look forward to hearing from authors and fostering debate in yet another
Forum for ideas!

Cheers,
Shannon

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

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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 20:16:27 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: The Thomas Hardy Association Collection of Early Hardy
Criticism


Hi everyone--

New listings on
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm

Grateful thanks to Bill Morgan for adding a new title (1 ) and a first edition
(2):

1) George Wing, Thomas Hardy (NY: Grove Press, 1963). [A not-too-nice
paperback
copy.]

2) David Cecil, Hardy the Novelist: An Essay in Criticism (London: Constable,
1943). [This is a nice first edition with dustjacket.]

Cheers,
Rosemarie.

William W. Morgan
603 N. School Street
Normal, IL 61761

Steve Meckstroth
Special Collections
Milner Library
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-8900

Rosemarie Morgan
124 Bishop Street
New Haven, CT 06511

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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 07:45:02 -0700
From: Betty Cortus <hardycor@owl.csusm.edu>
Subject: Reminders


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