Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Alice Jenkins is lecturer in the department of English at the University of Glasgow

• Introduction 1: Contexts; Contextual Overview; Chronology; Contemporary Documents; From John Henry Newman, Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert (1848); From J. Cumming, ‘Ritualism – What is it?’ (1867); Gerard Manley Hopkins on the language of verse (1864); From Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘Poetic Diction’ (1865[?]); Gerard Manley Hopkins on his conversion (1866); From Ignatius Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius (sixteenth century); From Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola’ (1880); From Gerard Manley Hopkins, sermon for 23 November 1879; From Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘Author’s Preface’ (c. 1883); From The Times, report of the wreck of the Deutschland (1875); 2: Interpretations: Critical History; Organization of the Critical Excerpts in this Sourcebook; Early Critical Reception; From Richard Watson Dixon, letters of 5 April 1879 and 1 March 1880; From Coventry Patmore, letter of 20 March 1884; From Robert Bridges, ‘Editor’s Preface to Notes’ (1918); From Robert Bridges, ‘Our generation already is overpast’ (1918); From I. A. Richards, ‘Gerard Hopkins’ (1926); From Laura Riding and Robert Graves, A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927); From William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930); From C. Day Lewis, A Hope for Poetry (1934); From W. B. Yeats, ‘Introduction’, The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936) ; From Charles Williams, ‘Introduction to the Second Edition’, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1930); From F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry: A Study of the Contemporary Situation (1932); Modern Criticism; Victorianism:; From Donald Davie, Purity of Diction in English Verse (1967); From Alison G. Sulloway, Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Temper (1972); Gender:; From Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979); From Alison G. Sulloway, ‘Gerard Manley Hopkins and “Women and Men” as Partners in the Mystery of Redemption’ (1989); From Margaret Johnson, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Tractarian Poetry (1997); From Julia F. Saville, A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2000) 69; Language: ; From James Milroy, The Language of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1977); From James Milroy, ‘Hopkins the Purist (?): Some Comments on the Sources and Applications of Hopkins’s Principles of Poetic Diction’ (1984); From Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (1993); Inscape and Instress:; From J. Hillis Miller, The Disappearance of God (1963); ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’; From Helen Vendler, ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’ (1992); From Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (1993); From Thaïs E. Morgan, ‘Violence, Creativity, and the Feminine: Poetics and Gender Politics in Swinburne and Hopkins’ (1992); ‘God’s Grandeur’; From Alison G. Sulloway, ‘Gerard Manley Hopkins and “Women and Men” as Partners in the Mystery of Redemption’ (1989); From James Olney, The Language(s) of Poetry: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1993); From Eric Griffiths, The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry (1989); ‘Pied Beauty’; From J. Hillis Miller, The Disappearance of God (1963); From Michael Lynch, ‘Recovering Hopkins, Recovering Ourselves’ (1979); From Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (1993); The ‘Terrible Sonnets’; From W. H. Gardner, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Study of Poetic Idiosyncrasy in Relation to Poetic Tradition (1948); From Yvor Winters, The Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises (1962); From Eric Griffiths, The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry (1989); From J. Hillis Miller, The Disappearance of God (1963); 3: Key Poems 4: Further Reading.