the book offers a detailed commentary on the poetry of Hopkins, exploring the significance of contemporary cultural issues and the poet's life as Catholic convert and Jesuit priest. Part 1 traces Hopkins's life from his early schooldays, his undergraduate years at Oxford and conversion to Catholicism, to his work as a Jesuit scholar and poet-priest. Part 2, explains the core principles of Hopkins's innovative and challenging poetry, including sections on inscape, instress and sprung rhythm. Part 3, provides a detailed critical commentary on most of the major poems, including The Wreck of the Deutschland, God's Grandeur, The Windhover, Pied Beauty, The Caged Skylark, Hurrahing in Harvest, Felix Randal, Spring and Fall, Inversnaid, the six 'Terrible Sonnets', and That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire. Part 4, explores the history of Hopkins criticism from that of his own contemporaries to twentieth century and current critical approaches. John Gilroy is also the author of Reading Philip Larkin: Selected Poms

Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins created verse that combined material sensuousness with asceticism. This anthology features all of his mature work, including the well-known elegy, "The Wreck of the Deutschland."

The Present Book, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Critical Study, Aims To Introduce The Readers To The Universally Acknowledged English Poet G.M. Hopkins. Although Not Recognized In His Times, His Popularity Has Increased With The Passing Of Years And Today His Poems Are Held In High Esteem. His Concept Of Poetry And Poetic Diction Distinguished Him From His Contemporary Victorian Poets. He Has Been Held By Many As Belonging More To The Twentieth Century Than The Nineteenth, Owing To His Technical Innovation And Intense Style. In His Poetry, The Rhythm Of The Verse Has Been Perfectly Fused With The Flow And Varying Emphasis Of Spoken Language. In Fact, Hopkins Skilfully United The Rhythmical Freedom Of The Middle Ages, The Religious Intensity Of The Early Seventeenth Century, The Response To Nature Of The Early Nineteenth, And He Envisioned The Twentieth Century In Challenging Conventional Encumbrances In Poetic Form.The Present Book Makes An In-Depth Study Of All The Aspects Of Poetic Art Of Hopkins. Since Hopkins Poems Have Been Considered By Many Students Of English Literature As Difficult To Analyse, The Book Aims At Providing A Complete Analytic Exposition Of His Major Works So As To Induce Interest In Readers By Enabling Them To Have An Easy Understanding Of His Poetic Style And Works. Beginning With A Biographical Sketch Of The Poet, The Book Elucidates His Theory Of Poetry. His Concepts Of Inscape , Instress , And Sprung Rhythm Have Been Much Discussed. The Book Acquaints The Readers With Hopkins Treatment Of Nature Which Has Always Been The Background Of His Poems. A Critical Analysis Of His Major Poems Is Another Attraction Of The Present Book.It Is Hoped That The Book Would Be Highly Useful To The Students And Teachers Of English Literature. It Will Encourage The General Readers To Read The Masterpiece Works Of G.M. Hopkins.

In 1989, the centenary of his death, Gerard Manley Hopkins continues to provoke fundamental questions among scholars: what major poetic strategy informs his work and how did his reflections on the nature of poetry affect his writing? While form meant a great deal to Hopkins, it was never mere form. Maria Lichtmann demonstrates that the poet, a student of Scripture all his life, adopted Scripture's predominant form--parallelism--as his own major poetic strategy. Hopkins saw that parallelism struck deep into the heart and soul, tapping into unconscious rhythms and bringing about a healing response that he identified as contemplation. Parallelism was to him the perfect statement of the integrity of outward form and inner meaning. Other critics have seen the parallelism in Hopkins's poems only on the auditory level of alliterations and assonances. Lichtmann, however, builds on the views held by Hopkins himself, who spoke of a parallelism of words and of thought engendered by the parallelism of sound. She distinguishes the integrating Parmenidean parallelisms of resemblance from the disintegrating Heraclitean parallelisms of antithesis. The tension between Parmenidean unity and Heraclitean variety is resolved only in the wordless communion of contemplation. This emphasis on contemplation offers a corrective to the overly emphasized Ignatian interpretation of Hopkins's poetry as meditative poetry. The book also makes clear that Hopkins's preference for contemplation sharply differentiates him from his Romantic predecessors as well as from the structuralists who now claim him. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

This book restores the poet to his full intellectual and literary context as a Victorian convert to Catholicism.

Ralph Gustafson's personal growth as a poet, during a career which spans more than half a century, in many ways reflects the development of modern Canadian poetry as a whole. A Poetics of Place provides the only available examination of the career of this pre-eminent Canadian poet, as well as insightful, new readings of almost all his poems.

Examines how Jessica Powers integrated her life and time in history with her religious experience to produce a mystical poetry and spiritual vision.

First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).