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Biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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 Although the English author and Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) wrote no more than 40 mature poems, he is regarded as one of the major English poets. Gerard Manley Hopkins was born at Stratford, Essex, on July 28, 1844, into a talented family...
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Biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins
14,336 words, approx. 48 pages
 Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the three or four greatest poets of the Victorian era and one of its most original prose writers. He is regarded by different readers as the greatest Victorian poet of religion, of nature, or of melancholy. However,...
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Biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins
13,522 words, approx. 45 pages
 Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the three or four greatest poets of the Victorian era. He is regarded by different readers as the greatest Victorian poet of religion, of nature, or of melancholy. However, because his style was so radically different...



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Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
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 Gerard Manley Hopkins ( July 28 , 1844 - June 8 , 1889 ) was a Jesuit priest and English poet whose posthumous, 20th-century fame established him among the finest Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially in regard to sprung...


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Gerard Manley Hopkins Information
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 Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844 – June 8, 1889), a Jesuit priest, was an English poet whose posthumous, 20th-century fame established him among the finest Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially in regard to sprung...



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 Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
Appropriating Hopkins.(Gerard Manley Hopkins)
06/22/2005: 4,505 words, approx. 15 pages APPROPRIATING in the title of this article could of course have several meanings, some less than creditable. Briefly, the intent here is to refer to a process, in this case the process by which a reader--sometimes but not always--absorbs, makes use of takes...
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 Musical Times
The second muse of Gerard Manley Hopkins
01/01/2007: 5,103 words, approx. 17 pages I wish I could pursue music; for I have invented a new style, something standing to ordinary music as sprung rhythm to common rhythm: it employs quarter tones.1 THE POET Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) pursued music intermittently throughout his short life. He was...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Yvor Winters
7,157 words, approx. 24 pages
 Winters was an American poet and critic known for his negative opinion of Hopkins's work. In the following essay, he compares of Hopkins's sonnet "No Worst" to a poem by John Donne and Robert Bridges's "Low Barometer," concluding that Hopkins's poem suffers from its overemphasis of emotion and its failure to suggest a rational motivation for the feeling expressed in the piece. In the second part of the essay, he discusses the difficulties in determini...
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Critical Essay by Jerome Bump
5,365 words, approx. 18 pages
 Bump is an American critic with a special interest in Hopkins's work. In the following excerpt, he offers a stylistic analysis of his poetry, focusing on the recurrence or "parallelism" of certain sounds in Hopkins's work.
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Critical Essay by Robert R. Boyle, S.J.
5,352 words, approx. 18 pages
 In the following essay, Boyle examines the major themes of The Wreck of the Deutschland, asserting that it is not a poem about the problem of suffering but a poem about the answer to the problem of suffering.


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