Talk:William Hope Hodgson

message: The last edit done was to add a link to an article written by another key fantastic horror / speculative fiction author in appreciation of Hodgson.
Over time, I hope to overhaul this article to insert more information about Hodgson's life, work and influence.
:You know I wish people would sign and date entries such as these. I don't know whether this was written yesterday or 5 years ago, or if the author is STILL going to do what he said, has already done it, or been run over by a bus. Myles325a (talk) 07:01, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last Edit / Overhaul 

message: Added.Hodgson 15:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "classic of the first water" citation 

message: Added, but the phrase was modified to be an exact quote--"most potent" rather than "most powerful", etc.  Although I'm not sure both these quotations from Lovecraft need citations since they come from the same essay.Hodgson 15:09, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "most potent" citation 

message: I have been adding works and expanding on Hodgson's use of genre, and broken out his stories by recurring characters, which are getting separate pages, and to mention a few more of his notable standalone stories. I would like to expand the biography a bit, and plan to add some information on his poems, a number of which were recently published for the first time, and references to the recent "Lost Poetry" and "Wandering Soul" books. Paul R. Potts 15:33, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expanding & re-organizing 

message: I've done just about all I can with the works section but the biography is pretty weak. Can anyone expand it, especially if you have access to the biographical essays in the Moskowitz collections? (Please cite them, of course, if you use information from these essays)... Paul R. Potts 23:22, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs more biographical information 

message: I have added to the list of standalone stories most of the stories from the 5-volume Collected Fiction. These don't have dates or alternate titles yet and are not ordered yet. I have also contributed summaries of Eloi, Eloi and The Derelict. It is not my intention to provide summaries of every story (many of them are little known and don't especially stand out) but if any editor wants to highlight a particularly well-regarded or important story please feel free to either provide a page for the story or request it and I'll see what I can do. Paul R. Potts 20:25, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derelict, Eloi, Story List 

message: The motifs section is not turning well, so I'm removing it, possibly to add it back in a different form later.
Paul R. Potts 16:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing Motifs 

message: It seems to me that this page is in dire need of Wikifying. Especially the sections on Genre and Theme in Hodgson's works seem to fit the bill of original research. This shouldn't be a collection of essays but an encyclopedia article. Elrith 05:25, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikification and original research 

message: Paul R. Potts 00:42, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you at least take the trouble to format your edits properly, italicizing the titles of novels and magazines, for instance. It's rather presumptuous to expect other folk to do these things for you. Deor 01:05, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I seem to recall a photo of Hodgson previously appearing in this article -- a head shot in profile.  Was it deleted at some point?  This is the most frequently reprinted photo of him; I've seen it in a number of sources.  The entry for Hodgson in Wikisource/authors has it as well. Z Wylld 20:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biography 

message: Is this really worth including? After all 40 was about the average life expectancy in this time period. Claidheamohmor (talk) 08:06, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "a career cut short at age 40"  

message: This article has 2 lines that I have a problem with. 
"Some of Hodgson's poems were first published in 2005, when they appeared in The Lost Poetry of William Hope Hodgson. Some may be still under copyright protection."
"Copyright protection has now expired on most of Hodgson's work, with the exception of some of the works published posthumously, including many of his poems."
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
The copyright for unpublished works is Life plus 70, which is also the maximum otherwise. So as WHH has been dead for about 93 years, all of his works, published or unpublished, fell into the Public Domain 23 years ago or before.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.36.118.195 (talk) 02:55, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now added a request for a source for the statement that some work are still under copyright. --Bensin (talk) 06:40, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

text: The Cornell Copyright Chart you linked to says that works published 1923-1977 have a 95 year copyright terms in the US, and Hodgson works first published 1977-2002 are under copyright until 2047. And copyright laws vary around the world; in much of Europe, there's a 25 year effective copyright on recently first published public domain works.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:34, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright 

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message: 'Spouse
Betty Farnworth
(m. 1913; died 1918)'
'Bessie Hodgson died in 1943'
Which?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.240.173 (talk) 01:45, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Clearer now? They were married in 1813, he died in 1918 (which obviously ended the marriage), and she survived until 1943. Deor (talk) 03:06, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wife's name and date of death