Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jennings | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
published The Mind Has Mountains, a group of poems about her fairly recent mental breakdown and time spent in a mental hospital. The title, adapted from a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
... |
Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | KR
published Hopkins
: Nature and Human Nature, an essay which she presented as the third annual lecture on Gerard Manley Hopkins
, given at University College
, London. |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | RG
published one of her best-known novels, Kingfishers Catch Fire, titled from a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
. British Book News. British Council. (1953): 477 |
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. qtd. in Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996. 40 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Jennings | Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press
with a foreword by Michael Schmidt
. It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination... |
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... |
Textual Features | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | The poem The Witch in the Wardrobe, as ENC
explained to Colette Bryce
, comes in part from the The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
, in which a... |
Occupation | Walter Pater | |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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Texts
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Introduction to the Third Edition”. Poems, edited by W. H. Gardner et al., Oxford University Press, 1956, p. xiii - xxvi.
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Editor Bridges, Robert, Humphrey Milford, 1918.