Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Gerard Manley Hopkins
-
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.
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...
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 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/.
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...