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.

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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...
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 ...
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...

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