Gerard Manley Hopkins Summary

Biography EssayGerard 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 Vic... Read more

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. Howe... Read more

Murry is recognized as one of the most significant English critics of the twentieth century, noted for his studies of major authors and for his contributions to modern critical theory. Perceiving an i... Read more

In the following essay, Motto describes how aphorism functions in Hopkins's poetry. It is an often cited paradox that Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet identified with a seemingly unstoppable lyric... Read more

Richards was an English poet and critic who has been called the founder of modern literary criticism. Primarily a theorist, he encouraged growth of textual analysis and during the 1920s formulated man... Read more

Warren was an American educator and literary critic with a special interest in theology and church history. In the following essay which was originally published in 1948, he explores the defining char... Read more

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 su... Read more

In the following essay, Lowenstein asserts that the features that give "Pied Beauty" its distinctive quality are characteristic of Impressionist art. As Francis Fike suggests [in VP, 197... Read more

In the following essay, Holloway discusses Gerard Manley Hopkins's shipwreck ode "The Wreck of the Deutschland" as a poem concerned with life and resurrection. In St. Patrick�... Read more