Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Study of Selected Poems

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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Study of Selected Poems Book Detail

  • Author : John Gilroy
  • Release Date : 2016
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 106
  • ISBN 13 : 184760367X
  • File Size : 13,13 MB
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Study of Selected Poems by John Gilroy PDF Summary

Book Description: 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

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Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins created verse that combined material sensuousness with asceticism. This anthology features all of his mature work, including

Poems and Prose

Poems and Prose

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In his poetry Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 89) sought to discover afresh the potentialities of language, and to that end developed his idiosyncratic theories of