Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poems (Literature Insights) by John Gilroy (PDF)

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A detailed intrduoduction to and commentary on the poetry of Hopkins, exploring the significance of contemporary cultural issues and the poet’s life as Catholic convert and Jesuit priest.In this exemplary study guide, John Gilroy 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; explains the core principles of Hopkins’s innovative and challenging poetry, including sections on inscape, instress and sprung rhythm; 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.’; and explores the history of Hopkins criticism from that of his own contemporaries to twentieth century and current critical approaches.John Gilroy took his BA at the University of Newcastle and his MPhil at the University of Warwick. He is co-author of A Commentary on Wordsworth’s Prelude, Books 1-5 (London: RKP, 1983) and has contributed to various literary publications. He was senior lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge from 1974 until 2006, and is a course director for the University of Cambridge’s residential and international programmes. He is the author of a best-selling study of Philip Larkin in this series.

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⭐I heard an interview with the Author/Editor on NPR. I had never heard of Gerard Manley Hopkins and based on the interview decided I would like to read his poetry. This book contains very, very little of Mr. Hopkins’ poems. “Selected Poems…..” is an understatement. I suggest you look to another source to read his work and then if interested check out this book. I out it aside after 30 minutes.

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