LITERARY LONDON JOURNAL
EARLY HARDY CRITICISM COLLECTION UPDATE
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for April
Date: April 1, 2004 9:40:44 AM PST
Earlier today I posted Hardy's "He Resolves to Say No More" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for April, 2004. This discussion will be the eighth and last 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 poems--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 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"), July ("No Buyers" and "An East-End Curate"), August ("Life and Death at Sunrise"), September ("I Look Into My Glass"), October ("Agnosto Theo"), November "A Young Man's Epigram on Existence"), December ("A Poet" and "In the Moonlight"), January ("Afterwards"), February ("Surview"), and March ("Why Do I?"), 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.
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 been published in *The Hardy Review*, V (Winter 2002).
All of the older discussions will remain posted at the site until such time as they are moved to the Members' Resource section of the TTHA website or 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 April of 2004.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
Director, the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
From: srogers@mailhost.sju.edu
Subject: Fwd: Literary London Journal Vol. 2 No. 1
Date: April 5, 2004 10:57:44 AM PDT
I'm forwarding this from VICTORIA. I thought it might be of interest for the
Hardy related content, however, brief.
Best,
Shannon
From: Dr Lawrence Phillips <lawrence@LPHILLIPS.FREESERVE.CO.UK>
Subject: Literary London Journal Vol. 2 No. 1
To: VICTORIA@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
I'm pleased to announce the publication of the latest edition of the
Literary London Journal which can be accessed at:
http://www.literarylondon.org
and has several items of interest to Victorianists
CONTENTS
Articles
Lorene M. Birden, Mappining London: Urban Participation in Sakian Satire
Gill Davies, London in Dracula; Dracula in London
Dehn Gilmore, Vacuums and Blurs: The Related Responses of Thomas Hardy
and the French Impressionists to the Modern City
Tuomas Huttunen, Representation of London in The Shadow Lines by Amitav
Ghosh
Alex Murray, Reading London Stone: The Paradox of Alternative Material
History in Representations of Contemporary London
L. J. Nicoletti, Downward Mobility: Victorian Women, Suicide, and
London's "Bridge of Sighs"
David Skilton, Contemplating the Ruins of London: Macaulay's New
Zealander and Others
Keith Wilson, London Contracting: the Internalizing of Urban Space in
the Literature of Contemporary London
Book Reviews
Susan Alice Fischer, Lee Kok Liang, London Does Not Belong to Me
Jane Desmarais, James Thomson, City of Dreadful Night, with drawings by
Clifford Harper
Samantha Matthews, Efraim Sicher, Rereading the City, Rereading Dickens:
Representation, the Novel, and Urban Realism
Dr Lawrence Phillips
Liverpool Hope University College
From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: New contributions to the TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism
Date: April 15, 2004 5:42:02 PM PDT
Dear Forum readers,
As the first anniversary of the TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism approaches, I am pleased to note nine new additions. These books bring the total number in the Collection to 90--all donated since the Collection was inaugurated on April 29 of last year. Here are the nine new titles:
Lascelles Abercrombie, Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study (London: Martin Secker, 1919 [New edition; the first edition was 1912)]. Donated by Bill King.
Clive Holland, Thomas Hardy's Wessex Scene (Dorchester: Longman's, 1948). Donated by Bill King.
F. E. Halliday, Thomas Hardy: His Life and Work (Somerset: Adams & Darte, 1972), donated by Rosemarie Morgan.
Albert J. Guerard, ed, Hardy: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963 [second printing: 1964]). Donated by Bill Morgan.
Jean R. Brooks, Thomas Hardy: The Poetic Structure (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1971 [paperback]). Donated by Bill Morgan.
Robert Gittings, The Older Hardy (London: Heineman, 1978 [1st British edition, dustjacket]). Donated by Bill Morgan
Robert Gittings, Young Thomas Hardy & Thomas Hardy's Later Years (NY: Book of the Month Club, 1990) [dustjacket]. Donated by Bill Morgan.
Randall Williams, M.A. The Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy: An Appreciative Study (London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1924). Donated by Bill Morgan.
Evelyn Hardy, Thomas Hardy: A Critical Biography (NY: Russell & Russell, 1970 [reissue of 1st edition London: Hogarth Press, 1954]. Donated by Bill Morgan.
To see the entire listing of books already held and books still sought, go to
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm
This seems like a good time to remind you that the professional staff at Milner Library, Illinois State University where the Collection is held will welcome duplicates, subsequent editions, and reprintings; so don't be put off by the fact that a title you wish to donate is already listed as part of the Collection. Likewise, if you have or know of a book on Hardy published between 1890 and 1975 but that doesn't appear on the master list at the website, please let me or Rosemarie Morgan know, and we will add it to the list. And finally, we are also keen to have non-English books and translations of English-language books published during the same period.
Thanks again to the many donors who have made this impressive--and growing--Collection possible.
best,
Bill Morgan
Executive VP, TTHA
From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Reminder
Date: April 17, 2004 6:45:47 AM PDT
Dear All,
It appears the time has come again for one of my periodic reminders about
unsubscribing from the Forum.
Please, do NOT write to the list itself. Instead, send a message to:
HARDY-L-request@mailhost1.csusm.edu
Then write the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Do not write anything
in the body of the message.
This is all you have to do.
Many Thanks,
Betty Cortus
Forum Director
hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
From: rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: Seamus Heaney
Date: April 17, 2004 7:26:27 PM PDT
A quick message to those attending the Hardy Conference in Dorchester in
August:
You will already know that Seamus Heaney will be reading some of his poems
at the conference but did you know he is now a Vice President of the Hardy
Society?
Here is his website for those interested:
http://www.ibiblio.org/dykki/poetry/heaney/heaney-cov.html
Cheers,
Rosemarie
From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Re: Important Message
Date: April 19, 2004 11:38:40 AM PDT
For the third time in as many days I will repeat the instructions for
unsubscribing from the HARDY-L Forum.
DO NOT WRITE TO THE LIST ITSELF!!
Please, send an email to:
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Then write only the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Do NOT write
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Note: this is a different address from the one used to send messages to
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Also, make sure that you are unsubscribing from the email address you used
to subscribe.
Betty Cortus
Forum Director
From: rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: To the patient and goodhearted --
Date: April 20, 2004 4:56:44 AM PDT
Hi -- you patient and devoted throng: --
As a follow-up to Betty's last message I'd like to add that much of the
trouble
we have been experiencing with unsubscribers has been caused by rogue rangers
on the internet.
Instead of pointing visitors to our registration page at
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/Forum/forum.htm
these rogues create their own link to our site and thereby effect a backdoor
entry to the Forum. No doubt they mean well, but the result is that their
visitors arrive and then have no idea how to retreat (unsubscribe) or even
what
we are all doing here. They turn up and find it isn't what they had been
looking for and then have no way of knowing how to quit because they have
entered by a backdoor which hasn't allowed them to know the protocols etc as
outlined on http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/Forum/forum.htm
We are trying to contact all such rogue operators to have them made aware of
these problems and to ask them to provide the correct entryway -(TTHA's url)
for their visitors. If you know of any such operators please contact me
personally and I will seek their indulgence in this matter.
Thank you all for bearing with us throughout these difficulties,
With every good wish,
Rosemarie
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From: srogers@sju.edu
Subject: New on the REVIEWS Page!
Date: April 24, 2004 10:31:14 AM PDT
Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Sexual
Politics in Selected Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy by Rosemarie Morgan. This is a fascinating criticism of
Devereux's book, which was published as part of Routledge's "Studies in Major Literary Authors: Outstanding
Dissertations" series. I invite all members to visit the Reviews Page to read this and our other previous reviews.
The Reviews Page is located in the MRR site of the TTHA pages, and can be accessed through the MRR link on the TTHA front page: http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm
I would like to invite responses from any author 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.
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