Author : John Gilroy
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1847602657
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Book Synopsis Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Study of Selected Poems by : John Gilroy
Download or read book Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Study of Selected Poems written by John Gilroy and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on 2013-09-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1, Life and Times, 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, Literary Strategies, explains the core principles of Hopkins's innovative and challenging poetry, including sections on inscape, interests and sprung rhythm. Part 3, Reading Hopkins, provides a detailed critical commentary on most of the major poems: The Wreck of the Deutschland, God's Grandeur, The Starlight Night, As Kingfishers, Spring, The Sea and the Skylark, In the Valley of the Elwy, The Windhover, Pied Beauty, The Caged Skylark, Hurrahing in Harvest, The Lantern out of Doors, Duns Scotus's Oxford, Binsey Poplars, Henry Purcell, The Candle Indoors, Felix Randal, Spring and Fall, Inversnaid, Ribblesdale, To What Serves Mortal Beauty, Patience, the six 'Terrible Sonnets', Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves, Harry Ploughman, Tom's Garland, That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire, 'Thou art indeed just', 'To R.B.' Part 4, Critical Reception, explores the history of Hopkins criticism from that of his own contemporaries to twentieth century and current critical approaches. This section also provides a guide to further reading and some useful websites.