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H03076 "SEPTEMBER 2003 ANNOUNCEMENTS" 9/1/03 HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE |
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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:19:00 -0500 From: Bill Morgan <wwmorgan@mail.ilstu.edu> Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for September Earlier this morning I posted Hardy's "I Look Into My Glass" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for September 2003. This discussion will be the first in a series dedicated to the poems that appear last in Hardy's 8 volumes of verse. I invite your contributions to an on-line conversation about the poem--and the idea of ending--over the course of the month. 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 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"), July ("No Buyers" and "An East-End Curate"), and August ("Life and Death at Sunrise"), 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 September of 2003.
cheers,
Bill Morgan |
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 07:06:21 -0700 From: Betty Cortus <hardycor@owl.csusm.edu> Subject: Fellowships Offer Dear All, I am forwarding the following message from the VICTORIA list. -- Betty
A funding source that shouldn't be overlooked by those doing any kind of work on 19th-c. books or periodicals is the Bibliographical Society of America, which offers fellowships of up to $2000 a month for as long as two months for travel and research expenses on appropriate projects; the fellowships are open to anyone, including graduate students. A number of Victorian research trips have been funded this way, as you can see by scanning the list of past awards. That list, and other details (current deadline 1 December) can be found on the BSA website at http://www.bibsocamer.org/fellows.htm . The Bibliographical Society in the UK offers a range of fellowships, too, details of which are at http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/grants.htm , and Victorianists have also had some success with these; applications for the BibSoc grants are also due in December.
-- Patrick
Patrick Leary pleary@VictorianResearch.org |
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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:44:00 -0400 From: Shannon Rogers <srogers@sju.edu> Subject: New on the REVIEWS Page!
I have posted the following new book review to the REVIEWS Page, in the Members Research Resources section: Betty Cortus's review of Molly Lefebure's Thomas Hardy's World 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 authors 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 A selection of reviews posted to the site will eventually be published formally in print. Best, Shannon Shannon L. Rogers General Editor Book Reviews Page The Thomas Hardy Association shannon.rogers@sju.edu |