[Hardy-l] RE: Teaching Hardy

[Rosemarie Morgan]

Beth -- if you go to Bill Morgan's TTHA's POETRY page you'll also find 
Teaching Hardy's Poetry
http://www.ilstu.edu/~wwmorgan/teaching.htm

An enjoyable and productive way to teach, say, FFMC, is to take one of the 
Wessex editions and also the MS edition** (ed Rosemarie Morgan, Penguin 
Classics)  -- or Penguin first editions --and to give each student a few 
chapters each for comparative textual study, then to report their findings 
to the class. This inevitably leads to close textual readings.  At risk of 
"puffing" (as TH wd say), my *Cancelled Words* would be useful for this 
exercise, although it's expensive due to all the facsimiles of the MS. 
Perhaps they cd photo copy parts of it from the library copy.

*** Same exercise cd be applied to the serialised versions making a 
comparative study that way. This is one of the most fruitful ways of seeing 
more closely into the author's mind in the composition process of writing 
not to mention the cultural forces at play.

Warning off? the Norton editions. Flawed.
Good Luck!
Rosemarie

    I like editions with, at the very least, helpful notes--but not the 
kind that give away the plot!
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>Thank you.
>Beth
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>Beth Sutton-Ramspeck