H04074 DECEMBER 2004 ANNOUNCEMENTS - 12/01/04 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES
NEW ON THE REVIEWS PAGE
POTM FOR DECEMBER 2004
HARDY SOCIETY JAPAN NEWS
HARDY A "PANDIABOLIST"
LIMERICK COMPETITION PRIZES
TTHA MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
GOOGLE TO ADD MAJOR LIBRARY HOLDINGS
MILNER LIBRARY COLLECTION EXPANDING
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From: ROGERS@juniata.edu
Subject: RE: New on the Reviews Page
Date: December 1, 2004 7:40:15 AM PST
It is indeed brim-full of penetrating, provoking, and illuminating
evaluations of current Hardy scholarship. And there's more to come.
For that I've got my reviewers to thank. I just keep them in line: or
should I say I ferret out their best work?
Cheers!
Shannon
Shannon L. Rogers
Assistant Professor of History
200 I. Harvey Brumbaugh
Juniata College
1700 Moore Street
Huntingdon, PA 16652
(814) 641-3638
rogers@juniata.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Rosemarie Morgan [mailto:Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 5:19 PM
To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Subject: Re: New on the Reviews Page
Shannon-- many thanks for the diligent work - The *Reviews* page is
positively bulging at the seams with goodies -- bravo!
( hmm.. mm just pondering "badgered" -- why do we use this word when
badgers keep very much to themselves and are not only nocturnal &
stealthy
but secretive, underground sett-builders?)
Glad to hear you have come through the black hole of the computer crash!
Good Luck!
Rosemarie
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At 03:40 PM 11/30/2004, you wrote:
Just posted to the Reviews Page is Jeanie Smith's review of Thomas
Hardy's
Vision of Wessex by Simon Gatrell.
I want to thank Jeanie (as well as other reviewers I've badgered to
stay
on schedule) for her patience with me while I recovered from two
computer
crashes.
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for December
Date: December 1, 2004 1:22:29 PM PST
Earlier today I posted Hardy's "An Autumn Rain-Scene" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for November, 2004. This discussion will be the third and last in a short series dedicated to Hardy's poems on the theme of autumn or the autumnal. I invite your contributions to an on-line conversation about this rather stark lyric over the course of the month of December.
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 poem as well as any comments it 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. 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 autumnal series 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").
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 December of 2004.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
Director, the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: SOME SHORT NOTICES/ Number 1
Date: December 3, 2004 6:32:55 AM PST
Greetings All--
This is the first, today, of three short notices:
1. TTHA's director in Japan, Professor Sumiko Inoue, has today sent news of recent activities in the ever-flourishing Hardy Society of Japan --
This news report can be found at:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/updates.htm
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: SOME SHORT NOTICES/ Number 2
Date: December 3, 2004 6:38:51 AM PST
Greetings All--
This is the second, today, of three short notices:
2. A delightful thatched cottage/hotel is now operating close to Hardy's Bockhampton birthplace and across the road from his first school. See:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Promotions/promotio.htm
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: New File on the Gerber-Davis Bibliography
Date: December 4, 2004 7:10:19 PM PST
Greetings all!
Just to say I have now completed editing and uploading the "1910" decade of entries for the Gerber-Davis Bibliography on
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Members/MRRHome.htm
(and have discovered, during the editing process, that Hardy is a "pandiabolist"!)
More to come . . . . . .
With grateful thanks to Gene Davis for his invaluable assistance in preparing these files,
Cheers
Rosemarie
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: A NOT-SO SHORT NOTICE/ Number 3
Date: December 7, 2004 1:47:23 PM PST
Betty's note reminded me that I should re-post this:
(so I am)
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Greetings All--
This is the third, today, of three notices -- and it is the fun one!
This is the time of year for TTHA's Seasonal Frolics and we have decided to offers prizes for the best limerick on a Hardy theme.
Closing date will be New Year's Day (2005) .
Prizes offered are: choice of a TTHA publication or a video of "Wessex" (US viewing only)
Cheers,
Rosemarie
TIPS for Non-English Majors
A limerick is a form of humorous verse popularised by Edward Lear in the nineteenth-century. Its form is fairly simple -- a five-line stanza built on two rhymes (aabba) with the 3rd and 4th lines one beat shorter than the other three.
Here is a Lear example:
There was a young lady whose chin
Resembled the point of a pin;
So she had it made sharp
And purchased a harp,
And played several tunes with her chin.
The next is Anon - and shows how you can wittily violate the language (bear in mind that the English pronunciation of "Warwick" is "worrick"):
There was a young lady of Warwick,
Who lived in a castle histarwick,
On the damp caste mould
She contracted a could,
And the doctor prescribed paregarwick,
And finally -- (Anon) here is an example of the slightly salacious sort:
There was a young virgin name Wilde,
Who kept herself quite undefiled,
By thinking of Jesus,
Contagious diseases,
And the bother of having a child.
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From: schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: TTHA Membership
Date: December 9, 2004 8:39:17 AM PST
Dear Forum Members,
I'm writing to you now because I know you're a member of
TTHA's Hardy Forum. It's a marvellous resource, and whether
you join in, or simply enjoy the lively give-and-take of the
discussions by other Hardy lovers, it's a service I'm sure you would
not wish to do without. So, too, with TTHA's Poetry Discussion Group.
The outstanding quality of Bill Morgan's introductory comments and of
the discussions that follow are there to enjoy whether you pitch in from
time to time with your own comments, or check in to read what insights
others have provided.
.
If you have found those TTHA services valuable and enjoyable, I'm writing
now to ask you to support them by becoming a member of the Association.
The advantages are numerous.
You'll receive the annual Hardy Review and a concordance to
Hardy's poetry on CD ROM, and have the opportunity to buy
other TTHA CD ROMs at a 50% discount.
You'll also have full access to TTHA's web site, including its
Members' Research Resources where lively reviews of new
publications on Hardy appear regularly. There, too, you'll
have access to the very comprehensive Gerber-Davis annotated
bibliography, the extensive Ottakar's Booklist, the Smith bibliography
covering 1990-1999, and the Checklist of current writings on Hardy
that extends from 2000 to the present. In addition, there's an
electronic edition of Hardy's poetry now in preparation.
And, of course, there's a handy search engine that covers the entire
content of the Members' Research Resources pages.
But, above all, by becoming a TTHA member, you'll be doing your
part to support a worthy service. For further information, just point
your browser to http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/memform.htm.
With best wishes,
Bob Schweik
Robert Schweik
University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Department of English
State University of New York
Fredonia, NY 14063
USA
schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Good Google News
Date: December 14, 2004 10:07:49 AM PST
Hi Everyone:
How's this for good news? -- From today's *Times*:
Cheers,
RM
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<http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=GOOG>Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the Web.
It may be only a step on a long road toward the long-predicted global virtual library. But the collaboration of Google and research institutions that also include Harvard, the University of Michigan, Stanford and the New York Public Library is a major stride in an ambitious Internet effort by various parties. The goal is to expand the Web beyond its current valuable, if eclectic, body of material and create a digital card catalog and searchable library for the world's books, scholarly papers and special collections.
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: Expanded Scope for the TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism
Date: December 21, 2004 12:11:33 PM PST
Dear Forum subscribers--
I am very pleased to announce that the TTHA coreteam of Vice Presidents and the professional library staff at Milner Library have recently agreed to expand the scope of the TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism. You may recall that our initial plan was to collect critical books on Hardy published between 1890 and 1975. We still plan to hold to that core mission, but we think it will be appropriate for the Collection to begin accepting books published after 1975 as well. In fact, we have already had a fair number of such donations, and this change in scope is largely a response to the wishes of donors. If it appears after a year or so that we are acquiring significant numbers of post-1975 books, we may consider changing the name of the Collection to reflect its expanded range.
Meanwhile, I encourage you to consider donating books of Hardy criticism of *any* date to the Collection. If you can bear to think about such matters, you may even want to consider not only gifts but also bequests of Hardy books for the TTHA Collection. For myself, I know that the expanded scope of the Collection makes me think in terms of donating all my Hardy critical books as a bequest.
Please remember that the Collection in its ideal form would include a copy of every edition of every book on Hardy published between 1890 and 1975--and now, after 1975 as well. The listing published at the TTHA website (http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm) will tell you of our progress to date and will serve as a general guide about books we're particularly seeking, but feel free to donate books either not on the list or already included in the Collection: the professional library staff at Milner will make decisions about how to deal with duplicates and any other anomalies.
And as always, if you have questions please let me or Rosemarie know.
best,
Bill Morgan
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: Happy New Year --& TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism
Date: December 31, 2004 12:32:24 AM PST
Greetings All!
I'd like to add a couple of items to Bill's excellent message.
First: in order to keep the TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism archives up to date
(at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm)
I need notification of donated books and the name of the donor. Milner Librarians cannot be expected to relay this information back to us - they keep their own records. So please, when you send direct to the Collection at Milner, as opposed to myself or Bill, please also let me (<Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>) know the good news so it can be entered in the TTHA archive. If your name and donation is not listed on TTHA's archive it is because TTHA (and myself as webmeister) has received no news of it.
Second: I'd like to stress that it is your generosity, kindness and thoughtfulness alone which has made TTHA's Collection at Milner the magnificent thing it is! When Bill and I inaugurated the project a couple of years back we had no idea it would take off in this way. As you can see, we are now expanding the enterprise and this expansion is solely the result of your beneficent activity!
What a pleasure it is to be able to speak of such heartwarming, good deeds in this deeply-saddened world!
Blessings All! ---- and Happy New Year!
Rosemarie
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