Lucy Newlyn
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Occupation | Literary Critic, Poet, Professor at Oxford University |
Education | Lawnswood High School, Oxford University |
Alma mater | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University |
Subject | Poetry, Romanticism, Reception theory, Intertextuality |
Lucy Newlyn is a poet and academic, professor of English Language and Literature, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.
Newlyn is a specialist in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century poetry.[1]
Life and career
Lucy Newlyn was born in 1956 in Kampala, Uganda.[2] She grew up in Leeds, where she attended Bennett Road Primary School and Lawnswood High School, winning an open scholarship to read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in 1974.[3] She took up her Oxford place in 1975 and graduated with a Congratulatory First in 1978. Her D.Phil. thesis, supervised by Dr Roy Park, was later published as an Oxford English Monograph by Oxford University Press.[4] While working on her doctorate, she held a series of temporary lectureships in various Oxford colleges.[3] In 1984 (after a year as a lecturer at Christ Church) took up a Stipendiary Lectureship at St Edmund Hall.[5] Two years later, she was elected as the A.C. Cooper Fellow and Tutor in English there – a permanent post which she has held in conjunction with a CUF Lecturership in the Oxford English Faculty.[6] Newlyn gained the title Professor of English Language and Literature in 2005.[5] She is Honorary Professor at the University of Aberystwyth,[3] an Advisory Editor of the journal Romanticism,[7] a Fellow of the English Association,[8] and a Patron of the Wordsworth Trust.[9] Following in Bernard O’Donoghue’s footsteps, she has been literary editor of The Oxford Magazine since 2011.[10] She was co-founder, with Stuart Estell, of the Hall Writers' Forum, an online resource launched in 2013 for the exchange of writing and discussion of literature and the arts.[11] Married to the economist Martin Slater, Lucy Newlyn has two step children and one daughter.[12]
Work
Lucy Newlyn’s longstanding research interests are eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature, especially poetry and non-fictional prose in the Romantic period; influences on Romanticism; the reception of Romanticism; creativity and multiple authorship; allusion and intertextuality; reader-response and reception theory.[13] She is an expert on Wordsworth and Coleridge,[13] and has published extensively in the field of English Romantic literature, including four books with Oxford University Press and the Cambridge Companion to Coleridge.[14][15] Her book Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception won the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay prize in 2001: 'a signal contribution to British Romantic studies and literary theory'.[13][16]
Newlyn’s more recent research has concerned peripatetic traditions in poetry and prose; nature writing and environmentalism; regional identity and the poetics of place; the theory and practice of life-writing.[13] Since 2003, she has been working on the prose of Edward Thomas.[13] Her edition of his book Oxford came out in 2005.[17] This was followed by several articles on Thomas, as well as Branch-Lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry, co-edited with Guy Cuthbertson.[18] She is general co-editor of Edward Thomas, Selected Prose Writings, a six-volume edition for Oxford University Press.[19] Together, she and Cuthbertson have edited England and Wales and they are currently co-editing another volume, Pilgrimages.[19] Newlyn has never strayed very far from her first love, English Romanticism, and her most recent book, William and Dorothy Wordsworth: All in Each Other (2013) brings together many of her longstanding and recent research interests.[20]
Poetry
As well as an academic, Newlyn is a published poet and anthologist. Her first collection, Ginnel (Oxford Poets/Carcanet, 2005) concerns her ‘intense local attachment’ to the streets and alleys of Headingley in Leeds, where she grew up.[21] The collection featured in Woman’s Hour on 1 December 2005,[22] and prompted four paintings by June Berry FRWS, shown in the Royal Watercolour Society’s ‘The Poet and the Painter’ exhibition at Bankside Gallery in November 2008.[23] ‘Baking’ was ‘Highly Commended’ by the judges of the Forward Prize and re-printed in The Forward Book of Poetry (Faber and Faber, 2005).[23] Poems from the collection have also appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Yorkshire Post, Oxford Today, The English Review, and The Oxford Magazine.[23][24] A recording of Ginnel, read by Sherry Baines, has been published as a ‘Daisy Book’ CD by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).[23]
Newlyn second collection, Earth's Almanac (Enitharmon Press, 2015) emerged over a fifteen-year period following the untimely death of her sister.[25] In this collection she adapts the form of the 'Shepherd's Calendar' to the phases of grief, condensing a long process of reflection and remembering into the passage of a single year.[25]
In addition to her own poetry, Newlyn has published several anthologies of poetry and coordinated a number of collaborative writing projects. Together with Jenny Lewis, she was awarded a grant from Oxford University’s Institute for the Advancement of University Learning in 2002 to undertake research based on workshops at St Edmund Hall.[26] Their findings (together with the students’ writing) were published in Synergies: Creative Writing in Academic Practice (2003; 2004).[27] Newlyn was poet-in-residence for The Guardian in November 2005.[28] She ran university workshops on ‘The Craft of Writing’ with Christopher Ricks during his tenure as Professor of Poetry; and since 2001 she has run regular writing workshops for students at St Edmund Hall.[26]
Selected publications
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