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 Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Jennings
Like many of EJ 's collections, this includes tributes to some of her favourite artists, like Mozart and Hopkins . It ranges beyond private life to public life and the relation between the two. Behind...
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 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 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 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...
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.
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This collection reveals the strands of imagery and thematic concerns that bind her work together. The last...
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...
Occupation Walter Pater
After graduating with a second-class Oxford degree from Queen's in December 1862, WP returned to London with his sisters. His early attempts to gain a clerical fellowship failed, but in February 1864 he returned to...
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 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 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 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...

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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.