H05029 ANNOUNCEMENTS - 4/1/05 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES ____________________________________________________________________________
APRIL 2005 POTM
POTM STUDENT COMPETITION
HARDY REVIEW LATE
BILL MORGAN NEW POETRY BOOK
INSTRUCTIONS FOR UNSUBSCRIBING
CHECKLIST CONTRIBUTORS NEEDED
DEATH OF DAVID DELAURA
GERBER-DAVIS BIBLIOGRAPHY UPDATE
NEW FILM PAGE DIRECTOR APPOINTMENT
HARDY REVIEW NOW OUT
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for April
Date: April 1, 2005 8:00:35 AM PST
Earlier today I posted Hardy's "A Broken Appointment" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for April, 2005. This discussion will be the fourth in a short series dedicated to some of Hardy's most frequently taught poems. This discussion will also continue TTHA's student competition at the Poem of the Month site. I will be sending a separate reminder 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 April.
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"). And the first three in the current series--January ("The Impercipient"), February ("Channel Firing"), and March ("He Never Expected Much") are of course also available at the site.
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 Discussions for April of 2005.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
Director, the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: Continuing the Student Competition at the TTHA Poem of the Month Site
Date: April 1, 2005 8:12:10 AM PST
Dear Victoria and Hardy-L Forum Subscribers:
The TTHA Poem of the Month Discussions for the first three months of 2005 instituted a Student Competition as a special effort to attract responses from students as well as our other participants. We have judged that effort to be a success and will continue it for the April discussion focused on "A Broken Appointment."
Thanks to the generosity of TTHA Member Eugene Davis and TTHA President Rosemarie Morgan, we will again 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. There will be no set limit to the number of prizes to be awarded; Carolyn and I will reward all the student postings in April 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 April 2005 discussion at the Poem of the Month site
http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS
and to contribute to it. If you are a teacher or professor who is teaching Hardy in any of your courses at the present time, I hope you will encourage your students to participate--and perhaps win a videotape or a book for their efforts.
Sincerely,
Bill Morgan
Director, TTHA Hardy Poetry Page
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: The Hardy Review is late!
Date: April 6, 2005 7:33:28 AM PDT
Greetings and a quickis--
I do apologise for the lateness of the *Hardy Review, Vol VII.* - - it has been at the printers for a while and it appears they have had some major technical crises.
It should have been with you this week but I'm afraid there'll be another week's delay.
With regrets,
Rosemarie
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: New Poems by Bill Morgan
Date: April 6, 2005 7:58:31 AM PDT
Dear Friends,
It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of a new chapbook of
Illinios landscape poems by our own Bill Morgan, TTHA Executive Director,
and Moderator of the Poetry Page.
This collection, which Bill has been working on for the past few years, is
36 pages long, contains 31 poems, and is graced with cover art provided by
distinguished Bloomington artist, Harold Gregor.
Titled "Sky With Six Geese" the publisher Pudding House Press states:
"there are birds, animals, plants, seasons, people, sonnets, prose poems,
and heroic couplets--all co-existing gracefully; it is an open, capacious
world rendered with care, precision, and wisdom. . . . This is mature work
for serious people. And it's fun as well.
Copies of "Sky With Six Geese," by Bill Morgan, Columbus, Ohio: Pudding
House,
2005 ISBN 1-58998-326-2 can be ordered directly from the publisher at:
http://www.puddinghouse.com/
Once you get to the site, look in the left-hand column, and choose either
the third item, "Publications List" or, further down the same column,
"Order Form", either of which will tell you how to order by post, email, or
telephone. The book costs $8.95 plus shipping
.
Those of you who live locally in Bloomington-Normal can get a copy at
Babbitt's Books in downtown Normal.
Congratulations Bill! We look forward with great pleasure to reading these
new poems of yours.
Best Wishes,
Betty Cortus
hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Re: Leaving the List
Date: April 6, 2005 9:33:36 AM PDT
"Please do not send me any more emails." Example of wrong way to unsubscribe!
Dear Members,
If you wish to unsubscribe from the Hardy Forum PLEASE . . . . . Do not
send messages to this List, where they will go to every member on the list,
filling up their mailboxes with unwanted material.
To unsubscribe, simply send an e-mail to:
HARDY-L-request @mailhost1.csusm.edu
and write the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Do not write anything
in the body of the message.
Note: This address is diferent from the one used for posting messages to
the List.
Many Thanks,
Betty Cortus
hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
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From: schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: Wanted: More Contributors to TTHA's Checklist
Date: April 12, 2005 12:34:51 PM PDT
Dear Forum Members,
Just a word about TTHA's "Checklist of Recent Hardy Publications."
We're constantly anxious to increase the coverage of the Checklist. At present, the fifteen
compilers of the Checklist cover between them, once every two months, some 7 trade lists (including, of course,
the catalogues of Oxford UP, Cambridge UP, Palgrave/Macmillan, Penguin, and Norton), some
23 electronic bibliographies, catalogues, and other databases, including those of the British
Library, the Library of congress, Ingenta, Proquest, Project Muse, MLA, and MHRA, as well as nearly
100 journals ranging from ANQ to the Yale Review.
But we want increase our coverage. Particularly, we're looking for TTHA members
who have regular access to one or more of the following publications:
The New York Times. (We already cover the Sunday "Book Review" section, but
need someone to cover the weekly book reviews.)
The Times Higher Educational Supplement
The New Statesman
The Listener
If any member of TTHA out there has access to one or more of those
journals and would be willing once very two months to check it or them
for items related to Hardy and to inform us of what was found, the Compilers
of TTHA's Checklist would be happy to have you join them. Your name will,
of course, be included in the list of compilers.
Just a word about TTHA's Checkist of Current Hardy Publications.
The current Checklist covers the years 2004-2006. But 2006? Yes!
Some time about August of 2005 we'll begin getting advance publication
notice of works on Hardy to be published in the following year, and, too,
information about articles in press that will be published some time in 2006.
By the time the year 2006 rolls around, TTHA's Checklist will already have a
substantial number of entries for that year. TTHA's Checklist is by far the most
up-to-date and informative source for information about recent publications on
Hardy available anywhere. Often as much as three years ahead of what can be
found in the MLA, MHRA, and Victorian Studies bibliographies, it is invariably
also far fuller in its coverage than any --indeed all--of them.
Previous Checklists, going back to 2000, are archived, and, like the current Checklist,
are available for use by TTHA members. Together, these bibliographies constitute
the most thorough record of research on Hardy available anywhere and are fully searchable by
author, title, or keyword. Most of the entries are annotated.
We hope you'd be part of the team that creates such a valuable research tool. If you can
contribute to our effort, please contact Robert Schweik at <schweik@fredonida.edu>
or <schweikr@localnet.com>. Just a check of one or more of the journals listed above,
once every two months, is all that's necessary.
Please let me hear from you!
For the Compilers,
Robert Schweik
Robert Schweik
University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
State University of New York
Fredonia, NY 14063
schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com
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From: schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: The Death of David DeLaura
Date: April 12, 2005 1:10:08 PM PDT
Those Forum members who are Victorian scholars will be saddened
to learn of the death of David DeLaura, whose work on the literary study
of Victorian prose was only one of the many contributions he made to
the field.
For me, his work was one of the inspirations that led to some studies I made
of the literary elements in the prose of John Stuart Mill. Like me, there
no doubt are hundreds of other scholars who can credit his research as an influence
on their scholarly lives.
He will be sadly missed, but, fortunately, his work lives on.
Bob Schweik
Robert Schweik
University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
State University of New York
Fredonia, NY 14063
schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: The Gerber-Davis Bibliography
Date: April 27, 2005 7:59:20 AM PDT
Greetings all!
Just to say that I've now finished editing & uploading the 1940s section of The Gerber-Davis Annotated Bibliography (to be found on the Member's Page at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Members/MRRHome.htm)
The 1940s entries bring us up to the grand total of 2262 !
Below are a couple of shorter (random) samples.
Grateful thanks to Gene Davis for his invaluable help in preparing these files to go online.
Cheers,
Rosemarie.
PS -- can anyone tell me how to reduce the redundant/ empty footage on the 1941-49 pages? I've tried dozens and dozens of ways-- no luck!
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2037 Weber, Carl J. "The Restoration of Hardy's Starved Goldfinch," Publications of the Modern Language Association, LV (June 1940), 617-19.
The Owen sisters convinced H that Henchard's return to the wedding and the starvation of the bird did not weaken The Mayor of Casterbridge, and the episode was returned to the 1895 edition. It was not, as Mary Ellen Chase supposes, removed as "melodramatic."
2058 Ghent, Percy. "Thomas Hardy Note Is Mainly Concerned with Canadian Babe," Evening Telegram (Toronto), 8 Sept 1941, p. 6.
[The MS of Far From the Madding Crowd was sold in 1941 as part of the Newton Collection. Contains a brief biographical sketch. Reprints a 21 Sept 1907 letter to John Moule in which H states his "conscientious objection" to being the godfather of Moule's son.]
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: New Appointment at The Thomas Hardy Association
Date: April 29, 2005 4:44:15 AM PDT
Greetings All!
I am pleased to announce that Professor Paul J. Niemeyer will be joining The Thomas Hardy Association's Board of Directors and Vice Presidents in the capacity of Film Page Director.
Paul teaches at Louisiana State University and is the author of Seeing Hardy: Film and Television Adaptations of the Fiction of Thomas Hardy (McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers: Jefferson, North Carolina, and London. 2003).
Please welcome Paul Niemeyer!
With every good wish,
Rosemarie Morgan
President, TTHA
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: The Hardy Review is out
Date: April 30, 2005 5:52:27 AM PDT
Greetings -
Just to say that The Hardy Review, VII (2004) is now out and has been distributed to all TTHA members. If you haven't received your complimentary copy please contact me direct.
With every good wish,
Rosemarie
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