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The final meeting of this year’s London-Paris Romanticism Seminar will be held on Friday 16 June 2017 in the Bloomsbury Room (G35) at Senate House, University of London, starting at 5.30. As our guest speaker, we are delighted to welcome Heidi Thomson<\/strong>, Associate Professor of English at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, who will present a paper entitled Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper: Private Woes and Public Media<\/strong>. This will be\u00a0followed by a discussion and a special wine reception to celebrate the success of the series and announce plans for next year. The event is open to all and admission is free.<\/p>\n Dr Heidi Thomson<\/a><\/span><\/strong> is the English Programme Director at Victoria University of Wellington and currently President of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Her book Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper: The Morning Post and the Road to Dejection<\/em>\u00a0was published by Palgrave in 2016. Forthcoming work includes a chapter about \u2018Fanny Brawne and Other Women\u2019 in John Keats in Context<\/em> (CUP), edited by Michael O\u2019Neill; a chapter about Keats\u2019s Meg Merrilies and other muses in Keats\u2019s Places \/ Placing Keats <\/em>(Palgrave), edited by Richard Marggraf Turley; an essay about Seamus Heaney\u2019s version of a Dutch poem by J. C. Bloem; and, co-written with climatologist James Renwick, a prologue to a book about Romantic Climates (Palgrave), edited by Anne Collett and Olivia Murphy.<\/p>\n Regarding the topic of her paper, Heidi writes:<\/p>\n \u2018My talk is about Coleridge\u2019s almost compulsive staging of his private woes in the Morning Post<\/em> newspaper between 1799 and 1802. On 4 October 1802, Wordsworth\u2019s wedding day and Coleridge\u2019s unhappy seventh wedding anniversary, the Morning Post<\/em> published one of Coleridge\u2019s most famous poems, Dejection. An Ode<\/em>. The poem had started off as a verse letter addressed to Sara Hutchinson about the paralysing effect of his domestic unhappiness on his creativity. In its newspaper version the poem portrays Wordsworth\u2019s happiness and status as poet against the backdrop of Coleridge\u2019s own depressed state. The transition from the \u2018private\u2019 verse letter to the \u2018public\u2019 newspaper ode has been acknowledged for a long time, but little attention has been paid to Coleridge\u2019s engagement with the Morning Post<\/em> newspaper at the time. This talk sketches some of the background to Coleridge\u2019s relationship with the Wordsworths and the Hutchinsons at the time, and it revisits the differences between the verse letter and the ode, highlighting that a clear-cut distinction between \u2018private\u2019 and \u2018public\u2019 does not really work with Coleridge\u2019s poetry.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The final meeting of this year’s London-Paris Romanticism Seminar will be held on Friday 16 June 2017 in the Bloomsbury Room (G35) at Senate House, University of London, starting at 5.30. As our guest speaker, we are delighted to welcome Heidi Thomson, Associate Professor of English at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}