Gerard Manley Hopkins

It is that quality of love that places the yoke upon us that is easy and the burden light. In "God's Grandeur," the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins declares that "nature is never spent; there lives the dearest freshness deep down things. "...

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...to the breeze. This is just one interpretation of probably Hopkins's most studied poem and one which he called his best. During his lifetime, Hopkins published few poems. It was only through the efforts of Robert Bridges that his works were...

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...and thought to myself, 'This is the life I want, rich and cultured. ' He bought me books on William Blake and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and postcards of Pre-Raphaelite pictures, signing them in a way that couldn't be understood by anyone...

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Some of my friends said at the time that I must have crossed the Tiber for the sake of beautiful music and ceremony. But as Gerard Manley Hopkins told his family in reply to similar charges, if it had simply been a matter of aesthetic...

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..."time-warp bubble" where there is no reception for mobile phones, her hippie father calls his bookstore Goldengrove, after the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem about lost youth. Her mother plays a "spooky Chopin waltz", while her sister copies the...

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...the man. But you could love what he once meant to you, what he brought to you, what the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins meant when he wrote: It was the blight man was born for, No, they are mourning a moment. It's a moment now more...

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...biography Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life, the poet Mark Ford scants both Mariani's book and Hopkins's life as a poet and a Jesuit. He diminishes Hopkins's rich poetry by reading it from a restrictive neo-Freudian perspective, and he...

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...has brought all these interests together. In his new book, the result of decades of immersion in Hopkins's life and work, he has found a way to tell Hopkins's life story that plunges a reader deeply into the mind and soul of this passionate,...

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...crowds and it combs to the fall." This is, of course, the human condition, prey to the tyranny of time. But Hopkins also knew that he had been saved from oblivion or worse by God's gift of His only begotten son. While one may or may not...

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...of Lent. During my own dark nights of the soul, I often find comfort in the "terrible sonnets" of poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins, for they show the depths of spiritual agony even the faithful endure. Hopkins's crippling...

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