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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for January
Date: December 31, 2004 7:35:08 PM PST
Earlier today I posted Hardy's "The Impercipient" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for January, 2005. This discussion will be the first in a short series dedicated to some of Hardy's most frequently taught poems. This month's discussion will also inaugurate TTHA's student competition at the Poem of the Month site. I will be sending a separate announcement about the competition later. Meanwhile, I invite your contributions to an on-line conversation about this well-known Hardy poem over the course of the month of January.
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 the recent series on Hardy's autumnal poems (October 2004--"Autumn in King's Hintock Park," November 2004--"The Later Autumn," and December 2004--"An Autumn Rain-Scene"), 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).
Happy New Year and welcome to the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion for January of 2005.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
Director, the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
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The TTHA Poem of the Month Discussions for the first three months of 2005 will be making a special effort to attract responses from students as well as our other participants.
In the hope of bringing more students into our conversations at the site and in recognition of the important place of Hardy's poems in the literary curriculum, I will begin the year by posting some of Hardy's most frequently taught poems. And, thanks to the generosity of TTHA Member Eugene Davis and TTHA President Rosemarie Morgan, we will be able to offer some prizes to the most interesting and fruitful posting by students: either a copy of the VHS videotape, Thomas Hardy: Man of Wessex (donated by Gene Davis) or the poster's choice of one of the TTHA book publications (donated by Rosemarie Morgan).
My co-judge for the awarding of prizes is TTHA Member Carolyn McGrath, a UK-based teacher and a regular and insightful participant in the Poem of the Month discussions. (Thank you, Carolyn, for agreeing to help.) There will be no set limit to the number of prizes to be awarded; Carolyn and I will reward all the student postings in January, February, and March that we think are particularly interesting and fruitful. Either Carolyn or I will announce each award on the Hardy Forum. (It would be helpful if students would indicate their academic affiliation in their postings.)
If you are a student and a subscriber to this listserv, I urge you to begin reading and following the 2005 discussions at the Poem of the Month site
http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS
If you are a teacher or professor who will be teaching Hardy in any of your courses in 2005, I hope you will encourage your students to participate--and perhaps win a tape or book for their efforts.
Best wishes for the New Year.
Sincerely,
Bill Morgan
Director, TTHA Hardy Poetry Page
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: A Modest Plea
Date: January 6, 2005 9:59:18 AM PST
Dear All,
December 2004 was one of the busiest months the Forum has enjoyed in recent
years. Many thanks to all of you who made it such a successful one by
participating in the Seasonal Frolics, and the lively discussions. However,
please remember when posting to the Forum, to delete any earlier message/s
to which you are responding, or just retain the most pertinent parts if
necessary for clarity.
Please remember that all Forum archiving is done manually, and John and I
are currently working on December's voluminous mail. Some postings have a
string of earlier messages appended to them. Not only does this overload
every subscriber's mail box, but it means that a huge amount of editing
needs to be done during the archiving process to delete it all. Your
cooperation in this matter will be very much appreciated.
Best Wishes to All, for a Happy and Fruitful New year.
Betty Cortus
hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: RE: The Gerber-Davis Bibliography
Date: January 23, 2005 10:45:40 AM PST
Greetings All -
Just to say that I have just finished editing and uploading the 1920-1925 section of the Gerber-Davis Annotated (Hardy) Bibliography.
I was interested to note, in passing, several insightful observations on Hardy and Housman as also upon the Nobel prize Hardy never received.
Incidentally, if you spot typos please let me know -- it's quite a mind-numbing business preparing this text for online publication and I'm sure I must miss a few glitches here and there. One not missed but which I can't seem to resolve is the odd, occasional html fragment which has crept into this particular file, -- does anyone have a clue how to de-louse these?
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For Non members: you can gain a glimpse of what is involved if you go to :
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/informationpageGene'sBibli.htm
For the rest of you ? Simply log on to the Member's page and hit the spot!.
With every good wish,
Rosemarie
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Attachments
Date: January 24, 2005 9:58:13 AM PST
Dear Members,
Please remember that all messages to the Forum must be free of attachments.
We appreciate your cooperation in this matter.
Betty Cortus
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From: navsa@purdue.edu
Subject: CFP deadline 1 Feb 2005
Date: January 27, 2005 1:42:53 PM PST
The third annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association
will be held 30 September - 2 October 2005 at the University of Virginia in
Charlottesville, site of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the foothills of the
Blue Ridge. The conference will feature plenary addresses by George Levine and
by Mary Poovey. Seminars on work in progress will be offered by Jay Clayton,
Linda Colley, Helena Michie, and Anthony Wohl. In addition, and as a new
conference development, Isobel Armstrong, Neil Hertz, and U. C. Knoepflmacher
will each conduct a master class on an assigned Victorian text. To participate
in the conference, one must be a member of NAVSA.
NAVSA 2005 welcomes submission of paper proposals, for delivery as 20-minute
conference talks, on any topic in Victorian literature, history, and culture,
with a view to showcasing the best of current work in the intersecting fields
that make up Victorian studies. Rather than prescribe a theme, the organizers
will braid the accepted papers into panels and weave some of these panels into
strands spanning the three conference days. The following list of set strands
and likely threads is intended to stimulate ideas, not hem them in; and the
program will include sessions that are unattached to these strands. Any topic of
interest within the NAVSA compass is eligible.
CROSSINGS
* transatlantic nineteenth century
* conflicts: war, dueling, insurrection
* border, migration, exchange
* Victorian & contemporary disciplinarity
* the Bar
GENERATIONS
* epochs, strata, phases, species
* utopia, dystopia, social engineering, genetics, prophecy
* ancestors, offspring, lines of descent / lines of dissent
* governess & pupil, master & disciple, initiate & acolyte
* families
INNOVATION / RESTORATION
* science & religion
* reform: parliament, education, fashion
* rear guard & avant garde
* Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, Arts & Crafts
* new women & old boys
INSIDES / OUTSIDES
* thresholds & limits: roads, walls, clothes, skin
* house, pub, suburb, city
* architecture of the psyche, the inner body, faces & skulls
* empire, colony, nation
COLLECTIONS
* museum, library, shop, cabinet
* hoarding, sharing, display
* kings' treasuries, queens' gardens, trash
* anthology, syllabus, curriculum, conference
TEXTUALITIES
* modes of production, modes of reception
* texts, graphics, typographics, metrics
* periodical press, part issue, seriality
* the sociology of the text
* propaganda & censorship
* prestidigital: the Victorians on-line
Proposals, 2 pages in length (500 words) with a 1-page curriculum vitae, should
be submitted electronically in attachment form to submissions@navsa2005.org by 1
FEBRUARY 2005.
Further information about NAVSA and the 2005 conference may be found at
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/navsa/
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