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Sentence Patterns in Gerard Manley Hopkins
… <p>It is the purpose of this paper to examine Gerard Manley Hopkins’ use of sentence patterns, that is, of rhetorical "schemes," as they contribute to the poetic effect of his Marian composition, "The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe."</p>
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Gerard Manley Hopkins, A Modern Victorian
… | In such glowing language do many admirers of Gerard Manley Hopkins today express their regard for the gentle, self-effacing poet who lived during the Victorian age, but who was of it in no other sense. Katherine Bregy asserts that "to examine his few and scattered poems is to be convinced that …
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The Transcendent Victorianism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins was born at Stradford, near London, on July 28, 1844.1 That year, incidentally, was a year of significance. The Oxford Tracts had done their work; the face of religion was changed; art and literature were taking on the buoyancy of progress and the weightiness of scientism. The …
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The Odd Words in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
<p>Critics have often referred to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins as odd and obscure; it Is not often, however, that these same critics have analyzed the poetry to determine what elements therein make for a poetry which they choose to call odd and obscure. Syntactical peculiarities, compression …
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The Fire Image in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
During the twentieth century poets and critics alike have paid more attention to imagery than to any other element of poetry. But this attention is only one manifestation of a great modern interest in the image. The last century has seen an ever-increasing image-consciousness in religion, …
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The Theme of Death in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
… the difficulty of understanding the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the ordinary reader approaches it with prejudice and a sense of inferiority, thinking that he is not well equipped to cope with it. There are other ways, however, of looking at Hopkins, and the lover of poetry should not allow …
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The naked eye: vision and risk in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins
… as its subject vision and risk in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889. Because Hopkins's poetry displays so evident a fascination with the particulars of language, it is unsurprising that the critical tradition on his work has thus far been heavily dominated by matters of sound: by the …
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Persons, perception, and play : human Christological inscape in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
This thesis will argue that Hopkins presents a consistent dynamic of "human" inscape which explains a noticeable disparity expressed across his early, middle, and late periods regarding the felt presence of Christ. In the first chapter, I argue that a "tryptic" of poems I curate explains how a …
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Form's Philosophy: Poetry and Moral Thinking in Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, and Geoffrey Hill
… thinking at stake in the poetry and poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, and Geoffrey Hill. For these poet-critics, poems could be a means of articulating matters of moral and spiritual value. This emerges, however, less often by propositional statement than by means of the multifaceted …
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The Bardic Style In The Poetry Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, And Dylan Thomas
There have always been elements in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, and Dylan Thomas that have been difficult to account for. Although each of these writers is generally engaged with modern poetics and sensitive to the issues of his time, certain characteristics of the …
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Apocalyptic care : the renewal of creation in Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
… Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins and challenge those prevailing assumptions through taking the poets' religious commitments seriously as sources of hope and aesthetic formation. Ultimately, I demonstrate that their commitment to an embodied renewal of creation …
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What the Fuck is This?: Aesthetic Nature of Being or Ontology in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
… world. This reality is further explained with Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poetry, notes, and letters as they shed light on the ability of poetry and language in general to communicate experiences and the partial truths of being that stem from them.</p>
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Relationship Among the Meaning Sturcture, the Image Structure, and the Sound Sturcture in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
… of the critical work that has been done on Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poetry. He believes that the hey-day of Hopkins-enthusiasts is over and that it is high time to evaluate the poetry in the light of a more thorough and direct analysis than the former critics have given. What Mr. Donoghue …
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The Ethics of the Ode: The Ancient Tradition and Two Modern Examples
… different modern poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Chapter three discusses the ways in which Shelley used the ode form as a means of championing both his own poetry and his revolutionary political ideals. Chapter four discusses Hopkins's famous ode ""The Wreck of the …
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Preaching silence: the disciplined self in the Victorian diary
… George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin and Gerard Manley Hopkins. It analyses the impact of wider ideological and social imperatives on the diarists’ subjective experience and reads their tendency to silence the self as a symptom of the cultural pressure to merge their private and public …
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The Parted Voice: Polyvocal Utterance in Victorian Elegies
… Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Howard argues that the resonance of many voices in Victorian elegies underscores a paratactic, eclectic approach to the recovery of voice, in which repurposing, echoing, and call-and-response structures underscore the range of …
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