Course Details
John Keats, Charles Brown, and New Zealand
Dates will be avalible shortly
Personal Interest
Other
Victoria University Community Continuing Education
Level 2, Rutherford House, 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington City
Half Day
10.00am - 12.00pm
10.00am - 12.00pm
$25.00
Please Note: This seminar will be held in New Plymouth ONLY
Please Note: This seminar will be held in New Plymouth ONLY
Please Note: This seminar will be held in New Plymouth ONLY
Travel back to the nineteenth-century settling days of New Zealand by focusing on the connections between the great Romantic poet, John Keats (1795-1821), and his friend Charles Armitage Brown (1787-1842) who emigrated to New Plymouth, Taranaki, in 1841. You will hear about Charles Brown's devotion to Keats's legacy and his adventurous life. You will also travel along with Keats's and Brown's walking tour of the English Lake District and Scotland in the summer of 1818.
Target Audience:
This course will appeal to anyone with an interest in the Romantic poet John Keats and his Circle; or the literary connections between New Zealand and Britain; the local history of New Plymouth; or in immigration stories.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course students will have gained a greater appreciation of:
* the life of Keats and
* his connection to early New Zealand
Course Outline:
Lecture 1: The Friend of Keats: Charles Brown's Life and Times
This presentation will dwell on:
* Charles Brown's friendship with Keats when they both lived at Wentworth Place in Hampstead
* Brown's lifelong devotion to Keats's legacy,and
* his emigration to New Zealand in 1841.
Lecture 2: 'Round many Western Islands':John Keats and Charles Armitage Brown on Mull and Iona, West Scotland
This illustrated talk will explore:
* Keats's and Brown's 1818 journey, step-by-step, in the far West of Scotland
* their extraordinary hike through the spectacular landscape of the Isle of Mull to remote Iona
* their journey by sea to Staffa and Fingal's Cave.
Course Format:
Held in New Plymouth, this seminar includes two 50-minute lecture presentations, to be followed by an opportunity for questions.
There will be a coffee break between the two lectures.
After the lectures participants are invited to attend as Prof. Nicholas Roe, on behalf of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Assocation, lays a wreath at the Charles Brown grave site in New Plymouth.
Travel back to the nineteenth-century settling days of New Zealand by focusing on the connections between the great Romantic poet, John Keats (1795-1821), and his friend Charles Armitage Brown (1787-1842) who emigrated to New Plymouth, Taranaki, in 1841. You will hear about Charles Brown's devotion to Keats's legacy and his adventurous life. You will also travel along with Keats's and Brown's walking tour of the English Lake District and Scotland in the summer of 1818.
Target Audience:
This course will appeal to anyone with an interest in the Romantic poet John Keats and his Circle; or the literary connections between New Zealand and Britain; the local history of New Plymouth; or in immigration stories.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course students will have gained a greater appreciation of:
* the life of Keats and
* his connection to early New Zealand
Course Outline:
Lecture 1: The Friend of Keats: Charles Brown's Life and Times
This presentation will dwell on:
* Charles Brown's friendship with Keats when they both lived at Wentworth Place in Hampstead
* Brown's lifelong devotion to Keats's legacy,and
* his emigration to New Zealand in 1841.
Lecture 2: 'Round many Western Islands':John Keats and Charles Armitage Brown on Mull and Iona, West Scotland
This illustrated talk will explore:
* Keats's and Brown's 1818 journey, step-by-step, in the far West of Scotland
* their extraordinary hike through the spectacular landscape of the Isle of Mull to remote Iona
* their journey by sea to Staffa and Fingal's Cave.
Course Format:
Held in New Plymouth, this seminar includes two 50-minute lecture presentations, to be followed by an opportunity for questions.
There will be a coffee break between the two lectures.
After the lectures participants are invited to attend as Prof. Nicholas Roe, on behalf of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Assocation, lays a wreath at the Charles Brown grave site in New Plymouth.
Nicholas Roe is professor of English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and a leading scholar of Romantic literature and culture. He is Chair of the Keats Foundation and a Trustee of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association.
Associate Professor Heidi Thomson has been teaching the Romantic poets for twenty years at Victoria University of Wellington. She has published widely on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Romantic Women Poets, and Thomas Gray.
Associate Professor Heidi Thomson has been teaching the Romantic poets for twenty years at Victoria University of Wellington. She has published widely on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Romantic Women Poets, and Thomas Gray.