Romantic Sensibility – Scriptorium of Nature

With Tom Hirons, and John Higgins

In this workshop we explore how to write with nature, in the style of the romantic poets but contemporary to our times. We look at  how the beauty of nature, landscapes and vistas, forests and mountains, can move us into such ecstasy that we are compelled to write. We will look at how this arises within us, how we make the shift in a conscious way and how we catch poetry, prose or song infused with these moments as they arise.

“Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth”
Wordsworth 1798

Professor John Higgins

John Higgins holds the Arderne Chair in Literature at the University of Cape Town. He grew up in Bradford in the north of England, and studied at a comprehensive school there before taking up a scholarship to attend Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, where his main courses were in French literature and philosophy, followed by undergraduate and graduate studies at King’s College, Cambridge, where he formally studied English literature, and informally film and theory through the Screen journal network. One of his many research interests is the romantic poets, particularly John Clare.

Tom Hirons

Tom has been storytelling publicly for over 15 years and writing for much longer.  In 2015, he co-launched Hedgespoken travelling storytelling theatre and Hedgespoken Press and these are often his main focus, elliptical approaches to changing the world, blessed with plenty of Trickster and a good helping of unfathomable magic.

This is the second of six workshops included in the Nature Scriptorium Online Writers Circle.

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Nature Scriptorium