H04062 OCTOBER 2004 ANNOUNCEMENTS - 10/1/04 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES
OCTOBER 2004 POTM
TTHA MILNER LIBRARY COLLECTION
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for October
Date: October 1, 2004 8:14:59 AM PDT
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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 a series devoted to epigraphs, epigrams, epitaphs, and other pithy sayings in verse (May through September, 2004), there are eight discussions from 2003 and 2004 that are concerned with the poems that appear last in Hardy's volumes of verse available at the site: 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"), March ("Why Do I?"), April ("He Resolves to Say No More").
Likewise, all twelve discussions from 2003 are posted: 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"), March ("Why Do I?"), and April ("He Resolves to Say No More"), 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"). And
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 October of 2004.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
Director, the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: Recent Donations to the TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism
Date: October 14, 2004 6:23:51 PM PDT
I am very pleased to announce that Dale Kramer has just donated twelve more titles to the TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism housed at Milner Library at Illinois State University. They are:
Jean Brooks, Thomas Hardy: The Poetic Structure (1971)
Roy Morrell, Thomas Hardy: The Will and the Way (1965)
Ian Gregor, The Great Web: The Form of Hardy's Fiction (1974)
Michael Squires, The Pastoral Novel: Studies in George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and D. H. Lawrence (1974)
Carl J. Weber, Hardy in America (1946)
Virginia Hyman, Ethical Perspective in the Novels of Thomas Hardy (1975)
Irving Howe, Thomas Hardy (1966)
William R. Rutland, Thomas Hardy: A Study of His Writings and Their Background (1938)
Ross C. Murfin, Swinburne, Hardy, Lawrence, and the Burden of Belief (1978)
Manas Mukul Das, Thomas Hardy: Poet of Tragic Vision (1983)
C. H. Salter, Good Little Thomas Hardy (1981)
Desmond Hawkins, Thomas Hardy: Novelist and Poet (1976)
Many thanks to Dale for his generosity.
The Collection now holds well over 100 books, thanks to TTHA members and other hardy enthusiasts from all over the world. Take a look at the list of our holdings at:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm
And please remember the Collection when you spy interesting older works about Hardy. Feel free to send your donations to me, Rosemarie Morgan, or directly to
Steve Meckstroth, Head
Department of Special Collections
Milner Library
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-8900
best,
Bill Morgan
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: MORE Donations to the TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism
Date: October 15, 2004 9:16:41 AM PDT
Greetings All!
The Fall season is doing TTHA's Collection of Early Hardy Criticism proud!
To follow the announcement yesterday of Dale Kramer's generous gift I hear that Bill, himself, has kindly donated the following titles which I have added, with Dale's, to TTHA's database at:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm
Bravo chief! This brings us up to approximately 113 books. That is, on average, 1-2 books per week since TCEHC's inception in April 2003!
Fantastic!
With grateful thanks, and every good wish,
Rosemarie
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O.D. Harvey, M.A., Puddletown: Thomas Hardy's 'Weatherbury' (Puddletown: St. Mary's Parochial Church Council, 1968)
Olive Knott, Dorset With Hardy (Dorchester: Longman's, n. d.)
Geoffrey Thurley, The Psychology of Hardy's Novels: The Nervous and the Statuesque (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1975)
Lois Deacon and Terry Coleman, Providence and Mr. Hardy (London: Hutchinson, 1966)
_________, Providence and Mr. Hardy (London: Hutchinson, n.d.) [Uncorrected Proof Copy on Proofing Paper]
Desmond Hawkins, Thomas Hardy (London: Arthur Barker, 1950)
H. M. Tomlinson, Thomas Hardy (New York: Crosby Gaige, 1929)
Lascelles Abercrombie, Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study (London: Martin Secker, 1912) [First edition]
_________, Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study (London: Martin Secker, 1927) [Fourth printing]
Harold Orel, ed., Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings (London: Macmillan, 1966)
Richard Carpenter, Thomas Hardy (London: Macmillan, 1976; repr. of NY: Twayne, 1964) [Paperback]
Emma Hardy, Some Recollections, ed. Evelyn Hardy & Robert Gittings (Oxford: OUP, 1979) [Paperback; repr. of 1961 edition]
Henry Danielson, The First Editions of the Writings of Thomas Hardy and Their Values: A Bibliographical Handbook for Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians and Others (London: Allen & Unwin, 1916)
R. A. Scott-James, Thomas Hardy: 1840-1928 (London: Longmans, Green, 1951)
Henry W. Nevinson, Thomas Hardy (London: Allen & Unwin, 1941)
Charles G. Harper, The Hardy Country, 3rd. ed. (London: A & C Black, 1925)
Edmund Blunden, Thomas Hardy (London: Macmillan, 1951) [repr. of 1942 edition]
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Please contact Bill or myself if you spy interesting older works about Hardy. If you send direct to Steve please let me know the titles. If you don't, your donation cannot be recorded on TTHA's Book Collection database.
Steve Meckstroth, Head
Department of Special Collections
Milner Library
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-8900
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