THE THOMAS HARDY ASSOCIATION
LINKS
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DIRECTOR: ROBERT SCHWEIK
© 1998-2004
THE THOMAS HARDY RESOURCE LIBRARY
DESCRIPTION:
Address: http://pages.ripco.net/~mws/hardy.html
Contact: Mark Simons (mws@rci.ripco.com)
Date: 07/01/04
This complex site is divided into five main parts: (1) "Texts," (2) "Biography," (3) "Media," (4) "Dorset," and (5) "Links."
"Study Aids" provides links to a "Lecture Hall" (for a comment on that and related sites, see our Links A 94) and to a now closed "Concordance" site(see our A 107).
"Etexts" includes links to "Project Gutenberg" and other e-texts (A 7), to "Poetry of the First World War" (A 30), to "A Selection of Hardy's Short Stories" site that no longer exists, and to two "Oxford Archive" texts (these links are outdated; see, instead, our A 17). "Etexts" also includes a link to a Wessex Poems site (A 29) and three links providing quotations from Hardy's writings (see our A 49, A 132--a site now closed--and A 189 In addition to those external links, there are hyperlinks to on-site e-texts of "The Science of Fiction," "Candour in English Fiction," "The Dorsetshire Labourer," "Our Exploits at West Poley," Satires of Circumstance, The Early Life, and The Later Years. Of those, only the Satires of Circumstance text provides a full bibliographic identification of the particular source text used.
"Articles" includes links to sites containing essays on Hardy as a medievalist (A 37), on Hardy and Schopenhauer (A 23) no longer open, and on Jemima Hardy which is also now closed (see our A 56), as well as three links to articles by Martin Ray (A 34, A 35, A 36), one outdated link to the Carl database (see our B 17 for the correct address), and one to a now closed "Concordances" site (A 107) also previously linked under "Etexts." In addition, there are two links to sites not directly relevant to Hardy.
"Reviews" contains on-site hyperlinks to an anonymous review of Robert Langbaum's Thomas Hardy In Our Time and to James Kincaid's review of Martin Seymour-Smith's Hardy, as well as a remote link to Simon Gatrell's review of Michael Millgate's Testamentary Acts (A 74). Intended links to two other reviews appear to be either broken or otherwise inoperative.
"Bibliography" provides a seventy-item selective bibliography and links to ten sites: to the R.L. Purdy collection at Yale (this is an outdated link--see, instead, our A 33); to the Dorchester Reference Library (A 10); to the University of California at Riverside (A 28); to the University of California at Irvine (A 41); a broken link to a list of reference works at a Rose State College site now closed (see our A 110 for further information); to an Academy of American Poets site (A 93); to the Finzi Book Room at Reading University (A 6); to Colby College's Miller Library (again, this is an outdated link--see, instead, our A 5); to one link now closed (see our A 3); and one to a site providing an announcement of the 1997 publication of Martin Ray's Thomas Hardy: A Textual Study of the Short Stories.
"Maps and Travel" provides a map of Dorset circa 1870 and Hardy's map of Wessex, as well as connections to sites related to Dorset covered by our A 123, and A 191, A 192. There are, also, links to sites, one related to Weymouth and another to West Country tourism, that are not accessible from this TTHA site. Intended links to two other sites are not operative.
"Genealogy" provides links to five remote sites, including our A 191 and B 11, one outdated link to "UK and Ireland Geneology" whose current link is http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DOR/#Genealogy, and links to two sites that are now broken.
"Ale" includes hyperlinks to on-site pages describing Hardy's ale and Dorset recipies, six links to remote sites related to Hardy's ale, and one broken link.
COMMENT:
This site is especially valuable for its provision of an e-text of "Satires of Circumstance" whose source is fully identified. Other e-texts--"Our Exploits at West Poley," "The Science of Fiction," "Candour in English Fiction," "The Dorsetshire Labourer," The Early Life, and The Later Years--are also valuable because none are available elsewhere on the WWW, though unfortunately the precise texts from which they were derived is not made clear. The biographical
time-line provided is reliable; the selective bibliography excellent up to 1995. The maps in the "Dorset" section are too small to be of any practical use, but that section does include some links not available from this TTHA site. Unfortunately, the number of links that are outdated or inoperative is very considerable; furthermore, the quality of the operative ones varies greatly and some are highly unreliable. There are, too, some oddities in organization--such as the location of a duplicate link to a now closed "Concordances" site under the topic "Articles." With respect to the e-texts provided, see our GENERAL CAUTION.
SUMMARY:
Particularly noteworthy for e-texts it provides that are available nowhere else on the Web.