Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry) by Gerard Manley Hopkins (PDF)

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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) was a Jesuit priest whose poetry combined an awareness of material sensuousness with the asceticism of religious devotion. His collected poems, published posthumously in 1918, exercised a profound influence on modern poetry. This volume features all of Hopkins’s mature work, offering a sampler of the poet’s striking originality, intellectual depth, and perceptive vision. Featured works include his well-known elegy, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” “God’s Grandeur,” “Hurrahing in Harvest,” “The Windhover,” “Pied Beauty,” and “Carrion Comfort.” Additional verses include “The Caged Skylark,” “The Bugler’s First Communion,” “The Starlight Night,” “The Silver Jubilee,” “Henry Purcell,” “Andromeda,” and others.

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Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Just enough Gerard Manley Hopkins to keep you busy for months. It even has the ‘Deutschland’ poem, for those of us intrepid enough to tackle that one–a fair warning, though, only a few of the poems have his preferred accent marks.

⭐Fast delivery, item arrived as described, loved the book

⭐I wanted a lightweight purse-sized edition of Hopkins, with only the most important poems included. This is it! Good selection of poems. Introduction is a nice compromise between providing essential background info and being concise.

⭐The very best sacred poet of all time — what more can I say?

⭐Beautiful poetry.

⭐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.Added to the delicious and poignant poetry is the contemplative nature of it. You’ll read about his humility and submission to God, his genuine faith, his desire that his poetry exalt God and not Hopkins himself.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 Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde were exalting in themselves, and just after Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David 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.I fully recommend this book.Anthony Trendlamericanspeechwriter.com

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