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The Escorial - Rosa Mystica - The wreck of the Deutschland - Dublin sonnets - Il Mystico - St Thecla - Moonrise.
Author : Norman H. MacKenzie
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Christian poetry, English
ISBN : 9780500150184
The Escorial - Rosa Mystica - The wreck of the Deutschland - Dublin sonnets - Il Mystico - St Thecla - Moonrise.
Author : Robert Bernard Martin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0571279732
'Will surely rank as one of the foremost literary biographies of our time.' John Carey, Sunday Times In his lifetime Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) published just a single poem - only a few close friends were aware he wrote. Much of his work was burnt by fellow Jesuits on his death. And yet Hopkins is today a huge figure in English literature. Homosexual but terribly repressed, he channeled his emotions toward nature and God, with profound results. Princeton emeritus professor Martin, the only biographer to have unrestricted use of Hopkins' private papers, tells this extraordinary story from Hopkins' early life and studies at Oxford, through his tortuous conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism, to his struggle in later years to retain his very sanity. 'In Martin, the unhappy and tormented genius has found the most sympathetic and intelligent interpreter... [The book] goes to the heart of Hopkins, and plants him firmly before us as a Victorian, and a great one.' Allan Massie, Sunday Telegraph 'Martin follows Hopkins through his toils with sympathy and a great unshowy command of the facts. In this magnificently solicitous biography he has re-established the contours of the story definitively and made the homosexual drama integral to the better-known drama of conversion and poetics.' Seamus Heaney, Independent on Sunday 'The triumph of this learned, scrupulously detailed and persuasive biography is that it brings the reader as near as it is perhaps possible to come to living Hopkins' life, to sensing the mysterious crushing pressures that were for him intimately bound up with the richness and complexity of his writing.' Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph
Author : John Gilroy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 184760367X
the book offers a detailed commentary on the poetry of Hopkins, exploring the significance of contemporary cultural issues and the poet's life as Catholic convert and Jesuit priest. Part 1 traces Hopkins's life from his early schooldays, his undergraduate years at Oxford and conversion to Catholicism, to his work as a Jesuit scholar and poet-priest. Part 2, explains the core principles of Hopkins's innovative and challenging poetry, including sections on inscape, instress and sprung rhythm. Part 3, provides a detailed critical commentary on most of the major poems, including The Wreck of the Deutschland, God's Grandeur, The Windhover, Pied Beauty, The Caged Skylark, Hurrahing in Harvest, Felix Randal, Spring and Fall, Inversnaid, the six 'Terrible Sonnets', and That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire. Part 4, explores the history of Hopkins criticism from that of his own contemporaries to twentieth century and current critical approaches. John Gilroy is also the author of Reading Philip Larkin: Selected Poms
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release :
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410359042
Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135314179
Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
Author : David Orr
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0062079417
"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410355403
A Study Guide for Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Pied Beauty," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Dr A. Antony
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1684946085
The book, G.M. Hopkins’ Poetry Preaches the Word of God, begins with an account of the relation between art and religion in general and art and literature in particular. This is followed by five chapters; the first four of them are a discussion on the four divisions of the Bible and an attempt to classify Hopkins’ poetry under these four biblical divisions. This is followed by the conclusion that the poetry of Hopkins attempts to preach the Bible to effect the conversion of the readers, particularly the people of England to the Catholic Church.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1986 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Periodicals
ISBN :
Author : Gerard Manley Hopkins
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141397853
'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' incomparably brilliant poetry, ranging from the ecstasy of 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). Hopkins' Poems and Prose is available in Penguin Classics.