Gerard Manley Hopkins

Hopkins

The Mystic Poets

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Christian mystical poet is beloved for his fresh language and startling metaphors. Underneath this lovely verse lies a searching soul, wrestling with and yearning for God, that will speak to people of all faiths who seek a deeper experience of God.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SkyLight Paths
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 127mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 107g
• ISBN-13: 9781683361152
• ISBN-10: 1683361156
• Artikelnr.: 45374919

Autorenporträt

Born in England in 1844, Gerard Manley Hopkins began writing poetry at an early age. In his early twenties, Hopkins converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism and in 1868 joined the Society of Jesuits. Hopkins continued to write poems thereafter, while serving as a priest and university teacher, but he burned most of his early poems out of a deep sense of conflict between his art and his faith, and he published very little in his lifetime."God's Grandeur" appeared in the first collection of his poems, edited by his friend Robert Bridges and published in 1918, long after the poet's death in 1889.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Rev. Thomas Ryan, CSP
Who Is Gerard Manley Hopkins?
A Short Introduction to Hopkins's Mysticism
Excerpts from His Sermons
A Short Introduction to the Poems
Excerpts from Hopkins's Writings about Poetry
From Robert Bridges's Preface to the 1918 Edition
The Poems
Notes
Index of Poems (by title)
Index of First Lines
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