Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Aakanksha Virkar Yates is a Lecturer in English literature at the University of Brighton, specialising in nineteenth century and modern literature. Her research is fundamentally interdisciplinary, placing literary works in dialogue with theology, philosophy, visual culture and music. Working in the growing field of inter-art studies, Dr. Virkar Yates is also the recipient of several awards, from the Nehru Trust for Cambridge University, the J. N. Tata Fund and recently a Rising Stars award from the University of Brighton.

• Acknowledgments "Rare-Dear Gerard": Hopkins and the Early Fathers Divine Labour: Contemplation, Energeia, Stress Tractarian Mysticism and Indwelling Grace Baptism and Ascent: Created Corruptible, Raised Incorruptible Sacramental Typology and Second Nature Origen and the Song of Songs The Visible and Invisible in Augustine’s Confessions Emblems of the Heart Love, Spirit, Breath, Fire The Paradise Within Bibliography

"Close reading of Hopkins’ never less than challenging verse is pursued in this book with theological rigour and learning in a manner that will ensure that it will become a central resource in scholarship on the finest of late nineteenth English poets... a work of fine scholarship, theologically learned and poetically sensitive, and yet at the same time spiritually acute and attentive to the delicate, complex world of Hopkins and his writings. This is a book to be treasured and pondered upon." -- Professor David Jasper, Literature and Theology