H05065 AUGUST, 2005 ANNOUNCEMENTS 8/1/05 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES ____________________________________________________________________________
AUGUST POTM
DORSET LODGINGS
MILNER LIBRARY ADDITIONS
POTM WEBBOARD CHANGES
SPAM
GERBER/DAVIS BIBLIOGRAPHY ADDITIONS
SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES CHANGE
NEW REVIEWS PAGE EDITOR
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for August
Date: August 1, 2005 8:58:26 PM PDT
Earlier today I posted Hardy's "On One Who Lived and Died where He was Born" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for August, 2005. This discussion will be the fourth in a short series dedicated to some of Hardy's memorial poems for members of his own birth family. In this month's poem, he is probably commemorating his father's life. I invite your contributions to an on-line conversation about this poem over the course of the month of August.
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 discussions from May 2005 ("Domicilium"), June 2005 ("One We Knew"), and July 2005 ("A Church Romance") are 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 August of 2005.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
Director, the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Dorset Lodgings _- Last Minute!
Date: August 4, 2005 7:31:32 AM PDT
Folks- I've just received this --
See TTHA Promotions for further details -
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Promotions/promotio.htm
Thanks,
Rosemarie
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LATE ROOM AVAILABILITY
Having turned many enquirers away for this coming weekend, because we were full, we have now had a cancellation which means that we have one double room available from tonight (Thursday) through the weekend - in fact, this room is now available up to and including the night of Wednesday, 10 August.
For those who know the hotel, the room in question is room 6 - the quiet room at the end of the hotel, with two views overlooking the garden and the fields.
If you would like to book this room for any of the period it is available, please telephone me on 01305 262 382 as soon as possible (first come, first served!). Saturday night stays must be a minimum of two nights. The rate is £96 per night for the room and full English breakfast or £90 per night if you stay a minimum of three nights. The rate is based on two people sharing the room. Reduced half board rates are also available if you dine with us for a minimum of two nights.
MARK COLLYER
Yalbury Cottage Hotel and Restaurant
Lower Bockhampton, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 8PZ
Telephone 01305 262 382
Fax 01305 266 412
Email yalburyemails@aol.com
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AA Dining Award
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: New Contributions to the TTHA Collection
Date: August 10, 2005 12:22:30 PM PDT
Dear Forum Members,
Normally Rosemarie would make such an announcement, but since she's away I'm left with the immodest duty of announcing that I've just donated 14 more books to the TTHA Collection of Early Hardy Criticism at Milner Library, Illinois State University. They are:
• L. Aas, Thomas Hardy og Hans Digtning [Thomas Hardy and His Poetry?] (Copenhagen: P. Haase & Sons, 1927) (I wonder if this is the first book ever on Hardy's poetry--anybody know?]
• D. F. Barber, ed., Concerning Thomas Hardy: A Composite Portrait from Memory (London: Charles Skilton, 1968)
• David Cecil, Hardy the Novelist (London: Constable & Co., 1943)
• Donald Davie, Thomas Hardy and British Poetry (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979) [First paperback edition]
• Henry Charles Duffin, Thomas Hardy: A Study of the Wessex Novels, the Poems, and The Dynasts, 3rd ed. (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1937)
• J. H. Fowler, The Novels of Thomas Hardy (The English Association, December 1928) [The English Association Pamphlet No. 71]
• Ruth Head, ed., Pages from the Works of Thomas Hardy (London: Chatto & Windus, 1922)
• Lionel Johnson, The Art of Thomas Hardy: With a Portrait Etched from Life by William Strang and a Bibliography by John Lane (London: John Lane, 1895)
• Timothy O'Sullivan, Thomas Hardy: An Illustrated Biography (London: Macmillan, 1975)
• Denys Kay-Robinson, Hardy's Wessex Re-Appraised (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972)
• Kenneth Marsden, The Poems of Thomas Hardy: A Critical Introduction (London: The Athlone Press, 1969)
• Harold Orel, Thomas Hardy's Epic-Drama: A Study of The Dynasts (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1963)
• Penelope Vigar, The Novels of Thomas Hardy: Illusion and Reality (London: The Athlone Press, 1974)
• Bertram C. A. Windle, The Wessex of Thomas Hardy (London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1906
Our Collection is now well over 100 titles, with quite a few books in multiple copies (different editions, publishers, etc.).
And here is a reminder: although the primary target of the Collection is critical works on Hardy from the period 1890-1975, we agreed with the staff at Milner Library last year to include works published later than 1975 as well. So if you have critical books on Hardy from any period that you would care to donate, please do. You may send your donations directly to the Library:
Professor Kathe Conley
Special Collections
Milner Library
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-8900
Or you may contact Rosemarie Morgan or Bill Morgan about any donations:
Rosemarie Morgan Bill Morgan
124 Bishop Street 603 N. School Street
New Haven, CT 06511 Normal, IL 61761-1618
best,
Bill Morgan
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Re: New Contributions to the TTHA Collection
Date: August 11, 2005 6:25:04 AM PDT
This is great news Bill. It is wonderful to see this fine collection growing.
Best Wishes,
Betty
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: Fwd: WebBoard [Poem of the Month] down Mon Aug 15 for upgrades
Date: August 13, 2005 7:33:05 PM PDT
Good evening, Forum members--
I received the email below a couple of days ago and thought I should probably forward it to the Forum so that visitors to the Poem of the Month Discussion wouldn't be surprised on Monday if they found the site inoperable. But, as the email says, the good news is that the new version of WebBoard should be faster and more efficient when the system is back up and running on Tuesday the 16th.
best,
Bill Morgan
Director, Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
WebBoard Managers,
Good news - we have an upgraded version of WebBoard going online! And it will be on a new and faster server as well. You can expect improved performance, according to the experts.
Bad news - to install the hardware and software, WebBoard will be down all day Monday, August 15. Daytime installation is needed to take advantage of support from the vendor. Sorry for any inconveniences.
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: Poem of the Month WebBoard Software
Date: August 18, 2005 10:44:58 AM PDT
Dear Forum,
If you've tried yesterday or today to use the Poem of the Month site, then you already know that the new version of WebBoard is not yet stabilized and reliable. During those intervals when it has been working, I've been impressed with the speed of the new system, but alas, those intervals are just that: intervals--for the time being.
Here--below--is an excerpt from an email I received this morning. I will be sure to let everyone know when the system is back up and fully functional.
best,
Bill
WebBoard is currently unstable and I don't have an E.T.A. of when service will be reliably restored.
I'm pretty confident we'll be able to address this issue before classes begin, and all requested WebBoards will be created before Monday. If these boards aren't created until the weekend, I apologize in advance for the short notice.
Right now we're concentrating on offering you all a faster and more stable WebBoard for this new semester.
Again, we're sorry for the inconvenience
Best,
Greg
--
Greg Maier
Instructional Developer | WebBoard administrator
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
Illinois State University
(309) 438-2327
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: Poem of the Month WebBoard Software
Date: August 19, 2005 10:12:12 AM PDT
Dear Forum,
I think the Poem of the Month site is now fully functional again--and the new version of the WebBoard software is *much* faster and more efficient than its predecessor. Give it a try:
http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS/newuser
If you have not used the site before, you will need to register and choose a username and password.
This month's discussion focuses on "On One Who Lived and Died Where He Was Born," a poem that is probably a tribute to Hardy's father. This discussion is one in a series of conversations about some of Hardy's poems written in tribute to members of his family.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
Director, Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: SPAM
Date: August 18, 2005 4:53:49 PM PDT
Dear All,
New Forum Members may not be aware that this is an unmoderated list. In
other words all messages sent to it are uncensored. Although we have spam
detectors in place occasionally an unwanted message, such as the one
referred to above, does slip through in spite of all precautions. The good
news is, our server, California State University, San Marcos, is in the
process of installing updated software, which, we hope will serve further
to eliminate this kind of nuisance.
A reply such as the one above, although well justified, does NOT go to the
offending sender, but to EVERYONE on the HARDY List. All complaints about
the Forum should be sent to me privately at the address below, and not sent
to the List itself.
Your cooperation much appreciated.
Betty Cortus
Forum Director
hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: New Contributions to the TTHA Collection
Date: August 22, 2005 7:16:02 PM PDT
A NOTE:
This is an addendum to Bill's message. When making a book gift please email me your name and book titles so that these details can be included in the archives of TTHA's Book Collection at
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm.
I've just finished entering Bill's contributions --Bravo Bill for such a generous donation!
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Addition to the Gerber-Davis Annotated Bibliography
Date: August 24, 2005 9:10:47 AM PDT
Greetings all!
For your convenience I have just finished editing and uploading an AUTHOR'S INDEX to the Gerber-Davis Annotated Bibliography - located on the Member's Research Resources Page at
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Members/MRRHome.htm
Grateful thanks to Gene Davis for providing the source material for this marvellous resource.
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Forum Searchable Archives
Date: August 24, 2005 9:55:34 AM PDT
Dear All,
The Google Search Engine, which has been inoperative for some time on the
Forum Searchable Archives website, has finally been removed. It appears
that Google finally lost interest as so few visits are being made to the
site. The CRAWL search engine, however, is still operative, and is
apparently working effectively.
Our archives are somewhat different from those of other mailing lists, as
they are sorted into specific topic threads at the end of each month before
uploading. This makes it simpler for searchers to follow a discussion from
beginning to end without a break. Every topic ever discussed on the Forum,
from its beginnings in 1997 to the present, is available for your perusal,
and this site constitutes just one more TTHA resource which students and
researchers may find useful to consult.
You can access the Forum Searchable Archives from TTHA website's Front
Page, or go directly to:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/Forum/Searchable%20Archives.htm
Wish Best Wishes,
Betty and John Cortus, Archivists
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: New Reviews Page Editor
Date: August 24, 2005 1:21:30 PM PDT
Greetings Everyone --
You may have noticed the doldrums in TTHA's Book Reviews Page recently and if you have noticed we apologise. Life changes, career changes inevitably take their toll on TTHA's scholarly endeavour but there is nothing, in this instance, which won't be speedily mended. Reluctantly, TTHA has had to let Shannon Rogers go, as Reviews Page Editor (we hope she'll continue as Director of Electronic Publications), but the good news is that Bob Schweik has stepped into the breach!
So, please welcome Bob as the new Reviews Page Editor and do inundate him with work -- he's eager to get the Page back up to speed. To start the ball rolling he has published his review of Sophia Andres' The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Changes to Visual Gendered Boundaries (Ohio State, 2005), and invites companion reviews of this work from fellow scholars. As you know, TTHA favours multiple reviews on the Book Reviews Page. We feel this gives readers a more stimulating array of critical works on Hardy scholarship than one review alone might provide.
Bob can be reached at
Robert Schweik <schweikr@localnet.com>
And TTHA's Book Reviews Page is located on the Members' Page at
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Members/MRRHome.htm
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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