| H03087 OCTOBER 2003 NOTES AND QUERIES 10/4/03 HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE | ||||||||
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From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu> Subject: Re: TTHA -- I thought you might enjoy the (delightful irony of a) lovely note I received today from a TTHA member in Cambridge, UK who, amongst other things, thanked TTHA " for all the efforts you put to maintain and develop the home of Hardy lovers." Bockhampton sure has come a long, long way! Cheers Rosemarie |
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Subject: Hardy and "Greensleeves" From: "Tara M. Christie" <tmchris@LearnLink.Emory.Edu> Good evening, I'm wondering if anyone out there knows offhand whether or not "Greensleeves" appears in any of Hardy's novels? Quite a lot has been written about Hardy and music, but I can't seem to find any reference to this song in particular. Thanks very much in advance, Tara Christie |
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Subject: RE: Hardy and "Greensleeves" Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 07:54:36 +0100 There is an 'Eve Greensleeves' buried in the churchyard that is the subject of the poem 'Voices From Things Growing In A Churchyard'. In her ghostly memory she was 'Kissed by men from many a clime,/Beneath sun, stars, in blaze, in breeze,'. A wholly irrelevant answer, I know. All the best Rob Abbott |
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Subject: "Timing Her" newly recorded Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:24:30 +0100 Dear Listers My setting of the poem can now be heard sung by my latest vocalist at SEGR Music. Go to "Latest News" at www.segr-music.net Hope you enjoy listening to the liquid tones of a sweet soprano voice. Nothing untoward is to be concluded from the choice of a female singer: the song was actually written for a maiden to perform (she was not from Keinton Mandeville, though). Roy Buckle |
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From: Robert Schweik <schweik@fredonia.edu> Subject: Hardy Country Screen Saver I've just added a note to page A 123 of the TTHA's "Information About Hardyon the World Wide Web" http://www.fredonia.edu/hardysoc/linksone/photographic.htm which I thought might be of interest to Forum members. Robert Seitz's "Thomas Hardy Country: A Photographic Tour" has always provided excellent pictures, but, now, he has added to it a free download of a "Hardy Country Screen Saver" which offers a variety of scenes from among the photographs presented on his site. The URL is http://members.aol.com/thardy1001/ Bob Schweik Robert Schweik Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus Department of English State University College Fredonia, NY 14063 USA schweik@fredonia.edu schweikr@localnet.com |
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From: Betty Cortus <hardycor@owl.csusm.edu> Subject: California FiresThanks for thinking of us Patrick. Rosemarie left this morning to fly backto Connecticut. Luckily she enjoyed several beautiful Oceanside beach daysbefore the pall of smoke got too thick to want to be outdoors. The mainthing is we are safe from the flames so far.Betty>Sorry your beach days are under smoke. The news is full of them and of course of the injuries and mortalities. Patrick |
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Subject: Politics in the U.K. Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:07:59 -0000 Listers in UK have today been regaled by the news media gloating(?)over the failure of Ian Duncan Smith to retain his hold as leader of theConservative Party. His fellow members of Parliament voted him out ( heremains as MP though not party leader). As I watched the scenes enacted in front of the party headquarters for the benefit of tv viewers I could not help thinking of the poem 'The Rejected Member's Wife' (in this case the rejected leader). There she stood, not auburn-haired or gloved or "On The Balcony" but simply on the pavement blonde, beautiful, and smiling bravely. No laughingstock she! A moment to remember, eh, Thomas Hardy? No trivial poem that! Roy Buckle |