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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- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2004
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 |
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| 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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