Excellent sampling of works by one of the Victorian era’s most individual poets includes—among other strikingly original poems—The Wreck of the Deutschland, "Carrion Comfort," "The Caged Skylark," "The Silver Jubilee," as well as a selection of unfinished poems and poem fragments.
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Francis (Frank) McAloon is Assistant Professor of Spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. He's a Hopkins scholar and loves teaching Christian spirituality and Hopkins. One of the courses he teaches is: Prayers, Poetry, and Hopkins.
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God's Grandeur... Hopkins shows it well.,
By A.Trendl HungarianBookstore.com "What should ... (Glen Ellyn, IL USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
This review is from: God's Grandeur and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
Hopkins is one of those poets hidden from so many because of his subject matter, yet is considered one of the most influential Victorian poets for his use of word combinations, meter and image.
Most his work was published posthumously, as late as 1920 or so, and immediately influenced the likes of T.S. Elliot (AKA, the guy who wrote the poem "Cats" is based on and "Wasteland") and his contemporaries. While Whitman and Wilde were exalting in themselves, and just after Emerson and Thoreau were helping us see creation, Hopkins demonstrated prowess in pointing readers to see the Creator in the creation. Atheists won't agree with him, of course, but he says it so well, they will at least go, "Hmm... if I believed, I could see that... yeah, wow, well put." The Catholics will cheer him on, "Atta boy... yep, that guy's a Jesuit!" Not undone are the Protestants who will be so impressed in agreement they'll be happy he was a Christian. Check out this snippet from "Pied Beauty" "Glory be to God for dappled things--/For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;/For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;/Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches wings;/Landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough;/And 'all tra'des, their gear and tackle and trim." Those accents are in the original. Delicious to say aloud? You should hear the second verse. His others are as tasty. This edition is something you want to pop in with a larger Amazon order... buy it on whimsy if you aren't sure. It is an inexpensive as book can get this side of free. I fully recommend this book. Anthony Trendl editor, HungarianBookstore.com
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Hit me with some more of the sprung rhythm baby!,
This review is from: God's Grandeur and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
On those days when getting out of bed is a psychological problem, I take one cup of earl grey with milk and a shot of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Something about the way he puts his words together makes me walk out of the house seeing in a totally diferent way. Hopkins struggles with what it is to be faithful, with what it is to live in creation in a way which honors God, with what, finally, it is to be human. I'm particularly fond of this volume, just because it contains all my favorite of his poems. I've tried a couple of other collections of his work, but I find that I just flip through them until I come to the stuff that I like from this one, so what's the point. Carrion Comfort, The Windhover, and God's Grandeur are incredible pieces of work. I've read them, literally, hundreds of times and they have not lost their ability to challenge me. That, in my experience, is a rare thing; something that helps me get out of bed in the morning.
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Excellent Catholic Poetry,
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The poetry of Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins is some of the greatest modern Catholic poetry ever produced by an Englishman. Received into the Catholic Church by J.H. Newman and later ordained a Jesuit priest, Fr. Hopkins never made a name for himself while alive. After his death, a friend of his discovered his poetry, compiled it into a short volume, and published it. It immediately became a hit amongst the English, and eventually spread throughout the entire Catholic world. Hopkins uses a variety of verse (from sprung to your run-of-the-mill iambic pentameter), which makes for an exciting read. Some of his poems, such as GOD'S GRANDEUR and PIED BEAUTY have even made it into a poetry appendix in the American translation of the Catholic breviary. These poems are wonderful starters for meditation, and they capture the thoughts of a man's heart as it aspires towards God. A wonderful read.
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