Mortal Beauty, God's Grace: Major Poems and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins - ISBN: 9780375725661
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Nature’s divine radiance and joy in Hopkins’ revolutionary verse.

Mortal Beauty, God's Grace: Major Poems and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Major Poems and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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    240 pages

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    15 March 2004

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Summary

Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of English poetry’s most brilliant stylistic innovators, and one of the most distinguished poets of any age. However, during his lifetime he was known not as a poet but as a Jesuit priest, and his faith was essential to his work. His writings combine an intense feeling for nature with an ecstatic awareness of its divine origins, most remarkably expressed in his magnificent and highly original ‘sprung rhythm.’ This collection contains not only all of Hopkins’ sign…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780375725661
ISBN-10:0375725660
Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins
Publisher:Vintage
Imprint:Vintage Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:15 March 2004
Weight:249g
Dimensions:16mm x 132mm x 203mm
Series:Vintage Spiritual Classics
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“All things therefore are charged with God and, if we know how to touch them, give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.” Gerard Manley Hopkins

“All things therefore are charged with God and, if we know how to touch them, give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.” -Gerard Manley Hopkins

About The Author

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Lesley Higgins is a Professor of English at York University (Toronto, Canada), specializing in Victorian and modernist literature and culture. She has published extensively on Gerard Manley Hopkins, his tutor Walter Pater, and modernism. Together with Michael F. Suarez, S.J., she is the general editor of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. She also co-edited Volume VIII, The Dublin Notebook, and is currently editing Volume III, Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks.

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