H05077 SEPTEMBER, 2005 NOTES AND QUERIES -9/8/05 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES ____________________________________________________________________________
MESSAGER FROM PAUL NEIMEYER (3)
SOURCE OF LYRICS SOUGHT (2)
HARDY ON TREE VERSE
*JUDE THE OBSCURE* QUESTION (2)
JEFF GREENBERG ON "IN TENEBRIS"
HARDY PORTRAIT AT AUCTION
TRANSLATING ADVISE REQUESTED (3)
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From: schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: Message from Paul Neimeyer
Date: September 8, 2005 6:16:51 PM PDT
Dear Forum Members,
Paul Neimeyer is a member of our Forum. He's on the faculty of Louisiana
State University which is in Baton Rouge. I heard from him recently. He is
relatively safe, though his situation is anything but good. The State University will reopen soon, but with an influx of students from the devastated areas to the south. Baton Rouge itself, he tells me, has nearly doubled in population as a result of the catastrophe--with all the awful consequences of such a desperate movement of population. He will be teaching many more students coming from such institutions as Tulane and other New Orleans universities.
A shutdown of power for 36 hours, which meant that he lost all food in his refrigerator, was just one consequence of his personal difficulty. Still, he considers himself lucky, but he points out that the situation of those from New Orleans--mostly elderly, disabled, and poor who now will need care, who knows for how long--is truly heartbreaking.
As he reports, all in that area face shortages of gas and some staples, and
driving in Baton Rouge is, as he describes it, "like being in a mule train."
Characteristically, Paul has spent time helping in the campus's athletic facilities which are being used as triage centers.
In replying to my inquiry as to how he was, Paul particularly urged donations to relief organizations for those who have fled from New Orleans and desperately need help.
In a spirit of lovingkindness, I hope members of the forum who may not already have contributed will be moved by Paul's appeal.
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: Message from Paul Neimeyer
Date: September 8, 2005 9:54:57 PM PDT
Thank you for post-Katrina news of TTHA Director, Paul Niemeyer. Most of us, at teaching institutions up East, are taking on an influx of students from the devastated areas just as our cities (ourselves) are, right now, preparing to provide homes for some of the displaced families of the South.
But according to the Red Cross and other relief organisations, money donations are most urgently needed -- more than anything else. So please contact your local Red Cross and give what you can.
Cheers,
'Rosemarie
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From: jww543@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Message from Paul Neimeyer
Date: September 9, 2005 3:44:13 PM PDT
Dear Bob,
Your kind message prompted me to make more immediately a couple of humble contributions. I must add that one of my students is baking extremely luxurious cookies (biscuits to some!) and selling them at the startling price of $10 per dozen. I don't eat many sweets, but I ordered some since she told me she and her mother were independently organising their own effort for relief. I guess this benighted land still has many glimmers of hope!
All best wishes and thanks,
Julian
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From: segr@segr-music.net
Subject: The poetry lives!
Date: September 13, 2005 8:51:00 AM PDT
What a subject that would make for discussion.
Dramatic and personative: those are the ones to
go for if you've got a voice and a piano, say and
think you can add something to Hardy's words!
Having stuck my head through the noose again
I thought musical enthusiasts might like to hear
my second setting this year of a "looking-back"
poem.
This one is "A Bygone Occasion", a sort of "companion
poem" (in Purdy's phrase) to "Once At Swanage".
Whereas OAS puts us in a happy mood as if we are there with
Tom and Emma watching the sea in the moonlight ABO leaves
us in tears at the futility of regret for what hasn't after all been
"ensured".
Perhaps the words used in my song will seem to
distort the published version of the poem a bit
for some tastes, but my commentary will I hope explain.
Go to My Composition/ Hardy Songs 2 /A Bygone Occasion
Now to find a singer...
Roy B.
www.segr-music.net
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Roy's musical settings
Date: September 14, 2005 6:14:14 AM PDT
Roy -- I did visit your lovely website and thoroughly enjoyed the trip. I still have a slight problem listening to electronically.-generated music (synthesised?), so, when I heard your pieces in concert (live) a few years ago I was glad to find them pleasingly stimulating and provocative.
Bloodlessly,
Rosemarie
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Hardy on Free Verse
Date: September 19, 2005 10:18:37 AM PDT
To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Reply-To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
I have been slowly reading through *One Rare Fair Woman*, Hardy's letters
to Florence Hennicker, over the past few weeks, and came across an
interesting passage in a letter of 22 December, 1916, regarding the writers
of *vers libre.*
"I suppose it is only a passing fashion, the original sinner being Walt
Whitman, who, I always think, wrote as he did, formlessly, because he could
do no better" (174).
It is somewhat ironic, I suppose, that this has become the dominant verse
form in English today. I wonder what Hardy would have thought of that?
Betty Cortus
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From: hcjohn@163.com
Subject: help
Date: September 22, 2005 9:04:25 AM PDT
I'm a post graduate student majoring in British literature, and now I'm planning my MA paper on Hardy's Jude the Obscure. Are there any lattest perspectives on this novel?
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Re: help
Date: September 22, 2005 9:42:17 AM PDT
John (is that your name?) it would be helpful if you were to tell us a
little more about the direction you are taking with your research on this
particular novel. Have you decided on a thesis yet? I assume you have
already consulted the usual bibliographies, such as the MLA. Without
question the TTHA Checklist which is available on our "Members' Only" site
contains the most up-to-date criticism on this novel, and would be an
invaluable source for your research.
Best Wishes,
Betty Cortus.
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: If a Way to the Better there is ....
Date: September 24, 2005 6:42:16 PM PDT
Greetings all -
In a recent conversation with Jeff Greenberg (University of Arizona) about his forthcoming article entitled The Revealing Science of Social Psychology we got talking about Hardy's poem, "In Tenebris." The result is Greenberg's concluding comment in his article, as follows (anyone wanting copy of the full article please email me offlist)
Cheers,
Rosemarie
Greenberg's concluding paragraph:
There is of course another
side to life: the beauty of nature; the joys of music,
love, friendship, sex, sports, art, film, and literature;
and the comfort of drugs and television. Indeed, a
positive psychology movement has arisen to attend
to this side of life and attempt to balance out psychology's
overall portrait of humanity. But as novelist
and poet Thomas Hardy noted, "if way to the
Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst" (p.
168). Social psychology has generally taken this adage
to heart, and perhaps that is a good thing if we
hope to continue to progress in understanding the violence,
hostility, prejudice, anxiety, and despair so
prevalent in this world of ours.
END
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From: schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: The Roy Davids Collection
Date: September 27, 2005 1:22:31 PM PDT
There's an announcement on p. 32 of TLS for 23 September 2005 of a
showing of Bonhams auction house of a collection of 280 portraits, including one
of a portrait of Hardy by Olive Edis (1876-1955)--photograph, platinum
print inscribed for Siegfried Sassoon by Hardy, 7 3/4 by 6 inches.
The auction, titled "Creative Encounters: Portraits of Writers, Artists, and
Musicians: The Roy Davids Collection" will take place on Monday, 3 October
2005 at 11 am at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London, WS1 1SR.
The Hardy portrait is estimated to be worth BP 3,000-4,000. Any bidders?
By the way, the collection is remarkable for its inclusion of very many
Victorian and early modern authors . For more information, see
<http://www.bonhams.com>.
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: soocil@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: for translation
Date: September 29, 2005 5:41:41 AM PDT
hello
where can I get the books and what will be the cost of the books you reffered?
It is available on the internet?
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: MC for translation
Date: September 29, 2005 6:15:48 AM PDT
Sushil -- I think your best bet is to get a copy of Keith Wilson's edition of MC (Penguin Classics, 1997). This is not only eminently affordable but also provides 60 -odd pages of excellent Notes and nigh on 10 pages of Glossary. Anything that challenges a translater after studying the Wilson edition could be aired on this Forum where I am sure you would receive the best of scholarly aid and advice.
Good Luck!
Rosemarie
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From: jwwhipple1@comcast.net
Subject: Re: for translation
Date: September 29, 2005 2:43:18 PM PDT
Dear Soocil,
No doubt you have received better advice, but at this time I am using the Oxford University Press, World's Classics edition Of TMoC with upper-level high school/secondary students. It has only a one-page glossary of dialect terms but many useful notes. Unfortunately, my school chose an edition with no glossary, let alone notes. If you can think of some "legal" way of getting these notes to your students, you might find success as I have.
Cheers!
Julian
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