Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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
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...
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...
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/.
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...
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...
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
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, Vol.
44
, p. 22.
22
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 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
...
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
.
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...
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...
Timeline
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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.
