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Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works
This authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to explore the essence of his work and thinking.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was one of the most innovative of nineteenth-century poets. During his tragically short life he strove to reconcile his religious and artistic vocations, and this edition demonstra...more
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was one of the most innovative of nineteenth-century poets. During his tragically short life he strove to reconcile his religious and artistic vocations, and this edition demonstra...more
Paperback, 429 pages
Published
April 15th 2009
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published October 24th 2002)
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A colleague of Hopkins once claimed that after reading The Wreck of the Deutschland, he got a very bad headache. I cannot disagree. Although I think its just that Hopkins might actually be too brilliant for the average mind. His works are weighted with metaphors, references, imagery and unorthodox use of language. One can research the crap out of a poem and still be missing a piece. It's quite mind-blowing. That's what the five stars is for. Not because I particularly enjoyed his poetry (I more ...more
Way back when, in the days before Evening All Afternoon, I wrote about being so struck by the unexpected meter and richly textured language of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem "Pied Beauty" while, of all things, taking a standardized test, that I wrote down the first line of the poem on a piece of scrap paper and shoved it into my pocket. My discovery of Hopkins probably still takes my personal prize for most intense aesthetic experience in a testing environment; never mind that I got the...more
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I read selections from this book for a paper I wrote for a literary theory class. Wow! The more I read GM Hopkins (slowly, meditatively), the more I am in awe of life.
An excellent example of Victorian poetry; however, I don't recommend for people new to poetry. Hopkins's language is sometimes difficult for even advanced readers.
I really only read a selection of these poems. I wasn't that impressed - I liked some of them quite a lot, but overall they're not to my taste.
I... think I actually like GMH less than when I started. His best is amazing, but this is a nearly-complete collection, including all the poems, and a lot of them aren't all that great. Or at least they are too frilly and Victorian for me. I don't think it benefited in being read in parallel with Larkin, who is a seriously miserable jerk, but who writes amazingly clear and lucid poetry - his use of language, wow.
I still think God's Grandeur is amazing, but there aren't enough other poe...more
I still think God's Grandeur is amazing, but there aren't enough other poe...more
Hopkins is a wonderful writer. His views of inscape and instress are intriguing. Moreover, the sprung rhythm that he employs in his poetry is superb. If you are interested in matters pertaining to intertextuality, take a look at Hopkins’s poetry in relationship to William Wordsworth’s concept dealing with “spots of time.” Aside from Wordsworth, Hopkins’s early work reflects a certain Keatsian sensuousness that is worth looking at. Have fun reading his works!!!!!
As struck me w/ Dickenson when I read her complete poems a couple of years ago, I have to concede that what is widely anthologized really is about all I'm interested in reading. Much of this was a slog--oh, but when he flew, he was a windhover, wasn't he?
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Gerard Manley Hopkins marked trail for the esteemed modernists with a movement from the stilted, formal prosody of his predecessors. Hopkins invented and employed rhythms, such as: counterpoint, inscape, and sprung rhythm. His ageless, metaphysical subjects find new terrain and interpretation with jazz-like metrics and language improvisation, and all in the mid-to-late nineteenth century!
Quickly becoming my favorite poet. A very challenging writer, but well worth the work. His poems lend themselves to "team reading" - so reading with someone with whom you can discuss it would probably bring more pleasure. But I think other Hopkins readers are likely hard to find!
I suspect it is in my nature to be Victorian.
And perhaps my relationship to Nature is Victorian, and by that I don't mean repressed for though Hopkins struggled with his own life the best of his poems are freedoms, in form and imagination.
And perhaps my relationship to Nature is Victorian, and by that I don't mean repressed for though Hopkins struggled with his own life the best of his poems are freedoms, in form and imagination.
Did not enjoy it when it was assigned for class. Maybe another try?
sprung rhythm beautiful and readable; beautiful images
Excellent... Hopkins has been a major influence.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse.
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“And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
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There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
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