HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H03064 8/4/03 "AUGUST 2003 ANNOUNCEMENTS"
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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:51:23 -0400
From: Shannon Rogers <srogers@sju.edu>
Subject: New on the REVIEWS Page!


Earlier this evening, I posted the following new book reviews to the REVIEWS Page, in the
Members Research Resources section:

William Morgan's review of Tim Armstrong's Haunted Hardy

Robert Schweik reviewing Thomas Hardy by Patricia Ingham

and

Martin Ray's review of Fifty-Seven Poems by Thomas Hardy, edited by Bernard Jones.


I would like to invite responses from any authors whose work has been reviewed on the page, past
or present. 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.


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

Best,
Shannon

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

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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:49:45 -0700
From: Betty Cortus <hardycor@owl.csusm.edu>
Subject: Scams

Dear forum Members,
I see our African friends are offering us wonderful business deals again.
THIS IS A SCAM as I'm sure you all realize. I apologize for the fact that
these unwanted messages occasionally slip through to the list. Please
ignore them and just delete them
Thanks for your patience,
Betty

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:49:50 -0500
From: Bill Morgan <wwmorgan@mail.ilstu.edu>
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for August

Since I was out of the country on the first of August, I take this
belated opportunity to remind subscribers that the TTHA Poem of the Month
for August is "Life and Death at Sunrise." This discussion 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.

As usual, 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"), June ("A Backward Spring," "Last Week in
October," and "Shortening Days at the Homestead"), and July ("No Buyers"
and "An East-End Curate"), 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, if belatedly, to the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion for
August of 2003.

cheers,

Bill Morgan

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 07:22:50 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re:Viruses

For your Information: I'm posting a letter sent from Yale ITS to Faculty in
the
hope that it will help other ITS workers and users gain control over viruses.
We've not been afflicted by the recent worm which destroyed Air Canada's data
base (among others), so it seems someone here is getting something right.
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To All Yale Faculty and Staff:

We have all been inundated with email messages that contain viruses over
the last year or so and most recently by a huge influx of the Sobig.F
virus clogging our mailboxes with subjects such as Your Details, Approved,
Your Application, Details, Your Account, That Movie, etc
Since May 2002, we have been renaming attachments to reduce the likelihood
of infection from such viruses with great success. The overwhelming volume
of recent virus attacks has prompted many requests from clients to simply
eliminate these messages entirely. Doing so will raise the risk that some
unfortunate sender will accidentally send an attachment with the name
identical to those of a current virus but that risk is very small compared
to the great gain to the community of eliminating huge numbers of
unnecessary messages (over 100,000 on Wednesday, 8/23 alone).
Effective today, we are discarding email messages sent to the Yale email
system with "alias@yale.edu" addresses which contain attachments with
filenames associated with known viruses. This new deletion process is
designed to be able to update the filenames based on new viruses and
virulence of future attacks.
Please refer to http://www.yale.edu/email/delvirus.html for a current
statement of the very limited number of attachment filenames which are
being discarded on the Yale servers at any given point.
If you have any questions or comments about this deletion process, please
feel free to contact me.
Lynna Jackson, Manager of Email and Network Services
Lynna.jackson@yale.edu

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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:55:19 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: The Thomas Hardy Association Collection of Early Hardy
Criticism

Greetings All:

Here is more good news for The Thomas Hardy Association Collection of Early
Hardy Criticism.

Betty King has recently donated the following titles from her late
husband's collection: our grateful thanks to Betty and to the late Bill
King to whom we are indebted. His name will be memorialised far, far from
the not-so Madding Crowds of Dorset -- to be inscribed on the list of
donors to TTHA at Milner Library, Illinois.
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Abercrombie, Lascelles. Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study. (London: Martin
Secker, 1924).

Braybrooke, Patrick. Thomas Hardy and His Philosophy. (London: C. W.
Daniel, 1928).

d'Exideuil, Pierre. The Human Pair in the Work of Thomas Hardy: An Essay on
the Sexual Problem as Treated in the Wessex Novels, Tales, and Poems,
translated from the French by Felix W. Crosse [Introduction by Havelock
Ellis]. (London: Humphrey Toulmin, [1924]).1930

Duffin, Henry Charles, Thomas Hardy : a study of the Wessex novels ; with
an appendix on the poems, and "The dynasts" (Manchester : The University
Press, 1921)

Halliday, F. E. Thomas Hardy: His Life and Work. (New York: Barnes & Noble,
1972).

Holland, Clive. Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Scene. (Dorchester: Longman, 1948).
//New York : Haskell House Publishers, 1971.

Johnson, Lionel Pigot, Art of Thomas Hardy with a portrait etched from life
by William Strang, and bibliography by John Lane. (London: Elkin Mathews
and John Lane ; New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1894.)

Lerner, Laurence & John Homlstrom. Thomas Hardy and His Readers: A
Selection of Contemporary Reviews. (London: The Bodley Head, 1968).
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See also TTHA's archives at:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm

On behalf of TTHACEHC directors (below) I'd like to thank Betty for her
generosity -- Hardy was so dear to her husband's heart.

With every good wish,
Rosemarie Morgan

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

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

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