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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Standard Name: Hopkins, Gerard Manley
GMH
, whose desire to publish his poetry was frustrated in his Victorian lifetime by his Jesuit
superiors, was first published in 1918 by his trusted friend and informal archivist Robert Bridges
. During the twentieth century his difficult work became canonical and revered. His journals and letters have also recently received high praise.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Ruth Padel | She found school work (at Byron House school in Highgate and then at the highly academic North London Collegiate
) difficult. She always got an A for English essays, although she would write a short... |
| Education | Michèle Roberts | She chose the medieval option. Her tutor was Rosemary Woolf
, and she studied no authors later than Shakespeare
. She reports the results of this in two different ways. In one version the course... |
| Education | Elizabeth Jennings | At university as at school, she was a voracious reader of poetry, feeling the influence in particular of John Donne
, Gerard Manley Hopkins
, and Robert Graves
. |
| Education | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | ENC
went on to receive an MA in English literature from University College
, Cork. She says that her generation was brought up on poets like Donne
and Hopkins
. McDonald, Roxanne. “Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”. Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works, Salem Press. Bryce, Colette. “Making a Poem: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”. Mslexia, p. 22. 22 |
| Friends, Associates | Coventry Patmore | CP
's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson
, Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, and John Ruskin
. Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins
and Edmund Gosse
. Among... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Padel | Poetry was a force in RP
's life long before she sought publication as a poet. She wrote her first poem at three. At seventeen or eighteen she was deeply influenced by Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | As usual with Rich, the six sections of this book fuse the poetic with the political (as reflected in her allusions to Gerard Manley Hopkins
, Walter Benjamin
, Homer
, Keats
). The first... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | CR
was mourned in a sonnet by Michael Field
shortly after her death. Her influence extended to many other poets of her own time or close to it, including Gerard Manley Hopkins
, Rosamund Marriott Watson |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | AD
's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Nan Shepherd | NS
's foreword mentions a great deal that has happened in the thirty years since this book was written, although those years are the flicker of an eyelid in the life of a mountain: the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Seamus Heaney | When SH
, then a schoolteacher, began writing poetry in the 1960s, one of his models was the Anglo-Saxon poetry studied on his degree course. When contemplating a translation from that language years later he... |
| Occupation | Walter Pater | |
| Textual Features | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Cecil Day Lewis
takes these to represent her middle period, side-tracked from her true bent by the compelling mannerisms of Hopkins
and the more public preoccupations of the 'thirties, and therefore showing a sense of... |
| Textual Features | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Day-Lewis
heard an echo of Gerard Manley Hopkins
in some of her compounds, like oat-field's silver-water sail. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996. 40 |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Daryush | She opens and closes the collection with two poems printed in italics. Her list of titles provides their opening words: an unnumbered poem placed before number one (from the first Verses) and another unnumbered... |
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