H05078 OCTOBER, 2005 ANNOUNCEMENTS 10/01/05 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES ____________________________________________________________________________
NEW ON THE REVIEWS PAGE (2)
OCTOBER 2005 POTM
TTHA NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
FORUM PROTOCOLS
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From: schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: New Review on TTHA's "Reviews" Page
Date: October 1, 2005 10:08:50 AM PDT
Today I've posted a new review on TTHA's Members' Research
Resources Page of
Arthur Efron, Experiencing Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Deweyan Account.
Studies in Pragmatism and Value series. John R. Shook, editor.
Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi, 2005. Pp. xii + 248.
Paper. $72.00.
TTHA members will find this new review available to them on TTHA's "Members'
Research Resources" pages. There are, also, new additions to TTHA's "Checklist
of Recent Hardy Publications" (2000-2006) on the "Members' Research Resources"
pages, as well, of course, as the wealth of information provided by the annotated Gerber/Davis
two-volume bibliography (1871-1969) and by the Smith bibliography (1990-1999).
Forum members or visitors wishing to avail themselves of the information provided on TTHA's
"Members' Research Resources" pages --including all the reviews--can go to
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/memform.htm
for information.
I'd appreciate responses to the review of the Efron book--and, indeed, to any other of the
many books reviewed on TTHA's "Reviews" pages--some of which may subsequently be
published in TTHA's "Reviews."
Bob Schweik
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: schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: New Review
Date: October 5, 2005 9:23:11 AM PDT
I've just posted on TTHA's "Reviews" page a new review of Michael
Millgate's Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited.
Bob Schweik
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: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for October
Date: October 4, 2005 2:04:55 PM PDT
Earlier today, I posted Hardy's "The Roman Road" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for September, 2005. This discussion will be the sixth 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 a memory of his childhood in the care of his mother, Jemima (Hand) Hardy. I invite your contributions to an on-line conversation about this poem over the course of the month of October.
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"), August 2005 ("On One Who Lived and Died Where He Was Born"), and September 2005 ("To My Father's Violin") 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 October of 2005.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
Director, the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: TTHA
Date: October 19, 2005 3:00:54 PM PDT
Dear Forum Members,
For those of you who are not fully familiar with our organization, you may
like to know that TTHA is a registered non-profit organization, that all of
its directors are unpaid volunteers, that some have donated considerable
sums of their own money to its cause, and that the organization at present
has a considerable negative cash balance. TTHA's founding purpose is
simply to further Hardy Studies, for the benefit of students, scholars, and
all those who love our author's works.
Best Wishes,
Betty Cortus
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Re: Forum Protocols.
Date: October 21, 2005 8:41:52 AM PDT
Dear All,
Just a note to clarify what is, and is not, appropriate on the Forum. As
most of you know, this is, at this time, an unmoderated list. Every
message sent to it is distributed to every subscriber. We rely entirely on
the discretion of our members not to abuse this privilege. We do advocate
freedom of speech, at the same time expecting posts to be scholarly in
nature, expanding the term scholarly to encompass informal, but informed
material with a focus on our author Thomas Hardy. While a little humor can
leaven the scholarly lump from time to time, and most of us would not like
to see it excluded, the focus should still be on our central concerns,
Hardy's life, work, and reputation. What is not acceptable, are postings
that are clearly off-topic, are rude, or downright silly. Technical
matters, and complaints about the Forum should be directed to me
personally, and I will do my best to respond to them promptly and
accurately.
Many thanks for your cooperation in this matter,
Betty Cortus
Forum Director
hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: A Gentle Reminder
Date: October 27, 2005 11:17:19 AM PDT
To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Reply-To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Dear All,
Just a word or two to remind you all to please delete earlier messages to
which you are responding. If necesary for clarity, however, feel free to
exerpt the pertinent portion of an earlier message provided it is
relatively brief. This will make the task of archiving much easier, and
will be a boon to some of our subscribers who have very limited space in
their mail boxes, and for whom overfilling them with repetitious
information can cause problems.
Many Thanks,
Betty Cortus
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