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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for September
Date: August 31, 2005 7:37:23 PM PDT
Late last night, I posted Hardy's "To My Father's Violin" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for September, 2005. This discussion will be the fifth 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 addresses his father's violin but celebrates his father's life. I invite your contributions to an on-line conversation about this poem over the course of the month of September.
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"), July 2005 ("A Church Romance"), and August 2002 ("On One Who Lived and Died Where He Was Born") 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 September of 2005.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
Director, the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
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From: schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: New Review
Date: September 6, 2005 5:14:14 PM PDT
I have just put on TTHA's "Reviews" page a new review of Simon Gatrell's
Thomas Hardy's Vision of Wessex (Palgrave). TTHA members will, I think,
find it challenging to compare the very different evaluations of that book by Jeanie
Smith and Rosemarie Morgan. Of course members may (in fact I hope will) submit
their own judgments of the book or their views on the differences between those reviews.
If you are not a member of TTHA, to join just point your browser to
<http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/memform.htm>.
If you have an interest in Hardy, TTHA "Members' Research Resources"
provides reviews of recent books--often marked by differences in opinion
by two or more reviewers--and listings of current publications on Hardy
more up-to-date than may be found anywhere else.
For TTHA,
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: New Items of Research from Michael Millgate
Date: September 7, 2005 5:58:21 PM PDT
Hi folks-
Please go to
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Promotions/promotio.htm
If you have any light to throw on Hardy's "Poetical" Notebooks.
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Re: What We Think
Date: September 14, 2005 3:41:14 PM PDT
Allow me once more to remind members how to unsubscribe from this list.
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.
Thank you,
Betty Cortus
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From: robert_goddard@hotmail.com
Subject: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Date: September 23, 2005 4:07:15 AM PDT
Dear All,
I thought that you'd be interested to learn that there is currently a "free access weekend" for the ODNB. See:
http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/openaccess/
Best wishes,
Robert
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From: schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: New Review
Date: September 24, 2005 12:21:06 PM PDT
I've just posted a new review of Joanna Devereux's Patriarchy and Its Discontents:
Sexual Politics in Selected Novels and Short Stories of Thomas Hardy in TTHA's
'Reviews' section of its "Members Research Resources" pages. The review is by
Judith Mitchell of the University of Victoria, Canada.
Members of TTHA can immediately access that, as well as many other recent
reviews, by checking into the Members Research Resources page. Those not
members of TTHA can get information about joining by accessing
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/memform.htm
for information on becoming a member. Forthcoming reviews include a new
edition of Far from the Madding Crowd, another of Arthur Efron's controversial
Experienceng 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles': a Deweyan Account, and yet another
on Roger Lowman's Thomas Hardy's 'The Dorsetshire Labourer' and Wessex.
Bob
Robert Schweik
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department of English
State University of New York
Fredonia, NY 14063
USA
Telephone: (716) 673-1905
FAX: (716) 673-3446
schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: New Review
Date: September 24, 2005 8:45:03 PM PDT
Bravo Bob Schweik--! For kicking off your new directorship of TTHA's "Reviews" page with such a solid piece of scholarly reviewing. I enjoyed every word of Judith Mitchell's review.
Here's to more great reviews -- congratulations!
Rosemarie
I hope to publish a selection of these TTHA reviews in the next edition of The Hardy Review.
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