Poems and Prose

Name: Poems and Prose
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ISBN: 9780140420159

ISBN-10: 0140420150

ISBN-13: 9780140420159

Edition: 1953

Authors: Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Gardner, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins

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The poems in this book are dazzling celebrations of God's endless creative power couched in a uniquely expressive poetic diction.

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 1953
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/30/1953
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.76" wide x 5.08" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Gerard M. Hopkins was born on July 28, 1844 in England, into a large and talented family. He attended Oxford, and entered the Jesuits in 1868. He later studied theology and, after destroying much of his youthful poetry, took up writing. In 1877, Hopkins was ordained as a priest. He was assigned to several churches and continued to write poetry, none of which was published until after his death. Hopkins's poems are noted for their intricate rhythm, which he labeled sprung rhythm. The poems are exemplified by their clever puns, wordplay and imaginative phrasing. His works include several series of sonnets, such as Pied Beauty and The Windhover, as well as "terrible" sonnets that explore the…



Note on the Author and Editor


Chronology of Hopkins's Life and Times


Dedication


Introduction



The Escorial



Winter with the Gulf Stream



Spring and Death



New Readings



Heaven-Haven



'I must hunt down the prize'



'Why should their foolish bands, their hopeless hearses'



'It was a hard thing to undo this knot'



'Miss Story's character! too much you ask'



Io



To Oxford



The Alchemist in the City



To Oxford



'Myself unholy, from myself unholy'



'See how Spring opens with disabling cold'



'My prayers must meet a brazen heaven'



Shakspere



'Let me be to Thee as the circling bird'



The Half-way House



A Complaint



'Moonless darkness stands between'



'The earth and heaven, so little known'



'The stars were packed so close that night'



The Nightingale



The Habit of Perfection



Nondum



Lines for a Picture of St. Dorothea



Horace: Persicos odi, puer, apparatus



Horace: Odi profanum volgus et arceo



The Elopement



The Wreck of the Deutschland



Moonrise



The Silver Jubilee



The Woodlark



Penmaen Pool



God's Grandeur



The Starlight Night



Spring



In the Valley of the Elwy



The Sea and the Skylark



The Windhover



Pied Beauty



Hurrahing in Harvest



The Caged Skylark



The Lantern out of Doors



The Loss of the Eurydice



The May Magnificat



'Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit'



'The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down'



'He might be slow and something feckless first'



'What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been'



Binsey Poplars



Duns Scotus's Oxford



Henry Purcell



'Repeat that, repeat'



The Candle Indoors



The Handsome Heart



'How all's to one thing wrought!'



Cheery Beggar



The Bugler's First Communion



Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice



Andromeda



Peace



At the Wedding March



Felix Randal



Brothers



Spring and Fall



Inversnaid



'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame'



Ribblesdale



A Trio of Triolets



The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo



from St. Winefred's Well



The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe



'The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less'



'Not of all my eyes see, wandering on the world'



'To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life'



'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'



'Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then'



'No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief'



To what serves Mortal Beauty?



'Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee'



'Yes. Why do we all, seeing of a soldier, bless him?'



'Thee, God, I come from, to thee go'



'Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray'



'My own heart let me more have pity on'



To his Watch



Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves



On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People



Harry Ploughman



Tom's Garland



Epithalamion



'The sea took pity: it interposed with doom'



That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection



In honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez



'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'



'The shepherd's brow, fronting forked lightning'



To R. B.


Selected Prose


Early Diaries and Journals


Letters


Devotional Writings


Modern Critical Views


Explanatory Notes to the Poems


Suggestions for Further-Reading


Note on the Text


Acknowledgements


Index of Titles and First Lines (Poetry)