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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for June
Date: June 1, 2005 3:12:21 PM PDT
Earlier today I posted Hardy's "One We Knew" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for June, 2005. This discussion will be the second in a short series dedicated to some of Hardy's memorial poems for members of his own birth family. I invite your contributions to an on-line conversation about this, Hardy's tribute to his paternal grandmother, over the course of the month of June.
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"), there is a series devoted to epigraphs, epigrams, epitaphs, and other pithy sayings in verse (May through September, 2004). And the four discussions in the most recent series on frequently-anthologized and frequently-taught Hardy poems--January ("The Impercipient"), February ("Channel Firing"), March ("He Never Expected Much"), and April ("A Broken Appointment") are of course also available at the site. Likewise the discussion from May 2005 ("Domicilium") is posted and available for contributions.
The eight discussions from 2003 and 2004 that are concerned with the poems that appear last in Hardy's volumes of verse have just been published in the newest Hardy Review (volume VII). The discussions are as follows: 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").
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 June of 2005.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
Director, the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
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From: schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: Recent Barnes and Noble edition
Date: June 1, 2005 9:53:21 AM PDT
Forum members may be interested to learn that Jonathan Cook,
a member of TTHA, has just edited the Barnes and Noble Classics edition
of Far from the Madding Crowd, newly published this month of June, 2005.
Congratulations, Jonathan!
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: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Forum Protocols
Date: June 14, 2005 7:50:08 AM PDT
Dear Forum Members,
Please keep in mind that messages to the Forum should be related to our
author Thomas Hardy, and of a scholarly nature, or at least of general
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Your cooperation in this matter will be greatly appreciated by your fellow
Forum Members.
Betty Cortus
hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: Using the Forum
Date: June 14, 2005 6:19:48 AM PDT
Thanks Betty.
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Folks -- this, below, is my form message sent to all who write to me wanting to know how to use the Hardy Forum. Can I suggest you copy it, complete with all urls, and place it in your Eudora "Mailbox" filing system (or whatever you use) under "Forum." Then it will be there at all times for you to click on at a finger touch and thence to subscribe or unsubscribe at will.
Many thanks,
Rosemarie
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When formulating your questions or ideas try and relate them to specific Hardy issues or texts or research materials. A vague question such as "Tell me about the Representation of Thomas Hardy's Women in his Novels" will draw no responses. This kind of question will draw interest: "I am searching for information/book or essay titles on the new divorce laws as they apply to Grace in The Woodlanders, please . . ." etc.
DO CONSULT:
1. Hardy's Novels, http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Novels/Novels.htm
2. Hardy's Drama, http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/drama/drama.htm
3. Hardy's Poetry, http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Poetry/poetry.htm
4. Hardy's Life, http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/LIFE/life.htm
These among other TTHA pages as well as the Members' Page at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Members/MRRHome.htm provide the most comprehensive Hardy research, including bibliographies and annotated bibliographies, in existence on the internet.
TTHA also provides dozens of book reviews of current work on Hardy. For access to the Member's Page you will need membership so go to:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/memform.htm
All in all this should provide enormously helpful resources for you.
Good Luck and the warmest of best wishes,
Rosemarie Morgan
President, The Thomas Hardy Association
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: TTHA CD ROMS
Date: June 16, 2005 11:30:14 AM PDT
Hi folks--
I apologise for the delay in sending out CD ROM orders. We are now back on track, computer problems sorted out, and ready to go. It would help me enormously (to catch up with the backlog) if those of you who have paid for a CD could email me with the title and approximate date of ordering. This would save my having to scour the membership files!
Many thanks,
Rosemarie
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Celebrating Dorset
Date: June 17, 2005 3:52:54 AM PDT
Greetings everyone --
Here's a refreshing thought if, like us (in New England) you are broiling in the heat --:
How about celebrating a cool New Year in Hardy Country at Yalbury Cottage in Bockhampton? They are providing a super deal!
Here's a sample: of the fare:
* Afternoon tea served in our lounge from 4.00 to 5.30 pm
* A seven-course dinner in our two AA Rosette restaurant
* Champagne at midnight to see in the New Year
* A fully en-suite double or twin room
* Brunch served on New Years Day from 10.00 am with last orders at midday, accompanied by complimentary champagne, Bucks Fizz or Bloody Mary
Contact? Go to
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Promotions/promotio.htm
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: The Gerber-Davis Bibliography
Date: June 22, 2005 7:21:27 PM PDT
Greetings all!
I am delighted to be able to say that I've now finished editing & uploading the 1960s section of The Gerber-Davis Annotated Bibliography. Next will follow the INDEX and then the Supplements
The Gerber-Davis Annotated Bibliography can be found on the Members' Page at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Members/MRRHome.htm)
Below are some shorter (random) samples fom the 1960s decade.
--- Grateful thanks to Gene Davis for his invaluable help in preparing these files to go online.
Cheers,
Rosemarie.
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Samples from the 1960s (the first from our own Robert C. Schweik and another treat -- an early Hillis Miller --)
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2730 Schweik, Robert C. "Moral Perspective in Tess of the d'Urbervilles," College English, XXIV (Oct 1962), 14-18. Angel Clare raises crucial questions near the end of Tess of the d'Urbervilles. " 'Who was the moral man? Still more pertinently, who was the moral woman?' " Though the novel provides no answer to Clare's questions it docs provide "answers which imply limited views and conflicting assumptions about moral reality." The philosophical passages in the novel, often regarded either as keys to H's deeper meaning or as nearly irrelevant abstract moralizing, "appear rather in the context of the novel to provide recognizably limited moral perspectives_partial insights into a much more complex moral reality revealed by the novel as a whole." [See rebuttal by Bernard J. Paris, "A Confusion of Many Standards . . .," Nineteenth Century Fiction, XXIV (June 1969), 57-79.] _________________________________
2945 Miller, J. Hillis. "Some Implications of Form in Victorian Fiction," Comparative Literature Studies, III:2 (1966), 109-18.
Recognition of the split between objective and subjective worlds led to a nihilism among the Victorian novelists, which, while it culminates in Conrad, may be traced in late Dickens, George Eliot, Trollope, Meredith, and H. The inability of man to comprehend or possess anything outside his own mind was realized fully by H, who shows again and again in his novels the painful hollowness of consciousness itself. Specifically, Michael Henchard in The Mayor of Casterbridge exemplifies the mental collapse which occurs to a character whose mind has turned in upon itself, cutting itself off from the objective world and living on its own emptiness.
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2762 Lawrence, T. E. To His Biographers, ed by Robert Graves and Liddell Hart (Lond: Cassell, 1963), pp. 25-27, 120.
" 'Do you think old Hardy would let me look at him? He's a proper poet and a fair novelist . . . and it would give me a feeling of another milestone passed if I might meet him.' " " 'There is an unbelievable dignity and ripeness about Hardy.' " " 'They used to call . . . [him] a pessimist. While really he is full of fancy expectations.' " To H " 'every person starts scratch in the life-race.' " [While stationed near Dorchester in the Royal Tank Corps in 1923, Lawrence met H and spent some of his leisure time at Max Gate.]
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2869 Mayers, D. E. "Dialectical Structures in Hardy's Poems," Victorian Newsletter, No. 27 (Spring 1965), 15-18.
Samuel Hynes's position in The Pattern of Hardy's Poetry (1956) that H's formulized pattern is antinomian is incorrect. Actually, the ironist implies a synthesis from his opposition of the thesis to the antithesis. In H's case the synthesizing factor is the Immanent Will. In "The Convergence of the Twain," "the operation of Hardy's transcendent and universal principle of accident is introduced into an appropriate circumstance"; in "The Torn Letter" it becomes "an obtrusive element." "Thus, it is the degree to which H's formula is integrated into the total structure of a poem that largely determines success or failure."
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