Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work /

Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work /

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In his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins was known as a poet only by a small circle of his friends. More than any other major Victorian writer, he was recovered and presented as a poet to modern readers by editors and scholars of the first half of the twentieth century. This book analyzes how and to w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bender, Todd K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1966]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, > 1844-1889.
Hopkins > Gerard Manley > Rezeption > Geschichte 1915-1965.
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, > 1844-1889 > Knowledge and learning.
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, > 1844-1889 > Criticism and interpretation > History.
Learning and scholarship.
English poetry > Classical influences.
Classicism.
Christian poetry, English.
Catholics > Intellectual life.
Poesie anglaise > Influence ancienne.
Classicisme > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Catholics > England > Intellectual life.
Classicism > England > History > 19th century.
Christian poetry, English > 19th century > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The critical response to the first and second editions of the poems
  • The publication of the prose and a note on the unpublished notebooks
  • The non-logical structure of "the wreck of the Deutschland": Hopkins and Pindar
  • Non-logical syntax: Latin and Greek hyperbaton
  • Metaphysical imagery and explosive meaning: Crashow, Hopkins, and Martial.

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