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G.M. Hopkins (1844-1889)
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Literary Criticism
Sadly, the articles provided by the Hopkins International Summer School seem to have disappeared from the internet, and many of the articles below are no longer available online.
Adamson, William. "Live Beyond the Severed Ends: Gerard M. Hopkins & Louis MacNeice," a lecture delivered at the Gerard Manley Hopkins International Summer School, from the archives of the ISS (removed)
Arkins, Brian. "Representing the Material World: Hopkins and the Reality of Christ's Resurrection." Lecture delivered at the Hopkins ISS, July 2000 (removed)
Arkins, Brian. "Style in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins," in Hopkins ISS (removed)
Badin, Donatella Abbate. "'To R.B.'Gerard Manley Hopkins' Final Words on Childbearing and Creativity," a lecture presented at the Hopkins ISS (removed)
Ballinger, Philip. "John Ruskin: Gerard Manley Hopkins's Silent Don," in Hopkins ISS (removed)
Banfield, Marie. "Darwinism, doxology, and energy physics: the new sciences, the poetry and the poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins." Victorian Poetry, Summer 2007
Beidler, Paul G. Hopkins' chiasmus: stanza 1 of "The Wreck of the Deutschland." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2001
Bizzini, Chantal. "Victorian English poet, G.M. Hopkins and Hart Crane: visionary poets and witnesses of their time," in Hopkins ISS (removed)
Bozdechova, Ivana. "Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Czech Environment," a Lecture delivered at the Hopkins ISS (removed)
Cotter, James Finn. "Hopkins and Augustine." Victorian Poetry, Spring 2001
Cronin, Meoghan Byrne. "'Earth's Old Groping' The Natural World and Percipience in the writings of both Hopkins and Thomas Hardy," in Hopkins ISS (removed)
Edmondson, Hank T. "Flannery O'Connor, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Silence," a lecture delivered at The 16th Gerard Manley Hopkins ISS, Monasterevin, Ireland, July 2003 (removed)
Enozawa, Kazuyoshi. "Christina Rossetti's "Escapist" Poems and Hopkins's "Heaven-Haven"' in Hopkins ISS (removed)
Fennell, Frank Jr. A substantial introduction to Gerard Manley Hopkins From the Literary Encyclopedia, 16 August 2004
Ferrini, Lara. "Le Occasioni or meeting points between English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and Italian poet, Eugenio Montale," lecture at Hopkins ISS (removed)
Groves, Peter. "Hopkins and Tractarianism." Victorian Poetry, Spring 2006
Higgins, Lesley. "'SHE REARS HERSELF' Feminist Possibilities in Hopkins's Poetry," in Hopkins ISS (removed)
Higgins, Lesley. "To prove him with hard questions": answerability in Hopkins' writings. Victorian Poetry, Spring 2001
Hollis, Hilda. Another bird? counterpoint in "The Windhover." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2002
Justice, Donald. Poet Donald Justice writes on Hopkins' "benign obscurity" in The New Criterion
Kenner, Hugh. The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins is compared to that of Alexander Pope, William Blake, Charles Algernon Swinburne, and W.B. Yeats. A lecture delivered at the Gerard Manley Hopkins ISS, July 2000 (removed)
Lackey, Michael. "God's Grandeur": Gerard Manley Hopkins' Reply to the Speculative Atheist. Victorian Poetry, Spring 2001
Landow, George P. "Rainbows: problematic images of problematic nature" at the Victorian Web
Landow, George P. "Paradigm, Point of View, and Narrative Distance in Verbal and Visual Arts," on "The Wreck of the Deutschland," comparing Christian and post-Christian versions of the shipwreck paradigm
Moulin, Joanny. "'Meaning motion'; Gerard Manley Hopkins with Heraclitus via Heidegger," A lecture delivered at the GM Hopkins ISS (removed)
Muller, Jill. "Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism" [John Henry Newman]. PhD dissertation, Columbia, 2000
Murray, Gerry. "GM Hopkins: His influence on John Berryman," in Hopkins ISS (removed)
Obed, Leonara. "Gerard Manley Hopkins and Oscar Wilde - both Writers, Poets and Victorians," in Hopkins ISS (removed)
Plotkin, Cary H. "Towards a Poetics of Transcendence after Charles Darwin: The Aspect of Nature," Plotkin contends that "Hopkins alone among the religious poets of the nineteenth century finds a way past the deus absconditus of deism and the impersonal immanence of scientific law by discovering a way of looking at nature that does not deny these laws but does not accept them as final truths. In Hopkins ISS (removed)
Villeponteaux, Elizabeth. Flashing foil and oozing oil: Trinitarian images in the first quatrain of "God's Grandeur." Victorian Poetry, Summer 2002
Virkar, Aakanksha J. "Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Song of Songs" ["The Wreck of the Deutschland"; Bible: Song of Songs]. Victorian Poetry, Summer 2007
Whiteford, Peter. A note on Hopkins' plough in "The Windhover." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2001
Wormald, Mark. "Hopkins, Hamlet, and the Victorians: Carrion Comfort?" Victorian Poetry, Winter 2002
Whitney, Tamora. "Hopkins and Whitman: Mother Nature's Sons," in Hopkins ISS (removed)
Zirra, Ioana. On Gerard Manley Hopkins as a devotional poet, covers The Windhover; The Wreck of the Deutschland; Pied Beauty; God's Grandeur; Carrion Comfort; Hurrahing in Harvest; The Soldier; God's Grandeur; the Golden Echo; the Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo; No Worst, There Is None. On Victorianism by professor Zirra, University of Bucharest 2003 (moved or removed)
Higgins, Lesley. Essaying "W. H. Pater Esq.": New Perspectives on the Tutor/Student Relationship Between Pater and Hopkins, on the influence of Walter Pater on Hopkins. From Pater in the 90s edited by Laurel Brake and Ian Small (moved or removed)
Hollis, Hilda. On the importance of Stanza 16 in "The Wreck of the Deutschland." In Victorian Poetry, Volume 36, no. 1, Spring 1998, Advice Not Taken: Attacking Hopkins' Dragon Through Stanza Sixteen (removed)
O'Brien, Kevin. On echoes of Prometheus Bound and the Book of Job in "The Wreck of the Deutschland." From Victorian Poetry, Vol. 36, no. 3, Fall 1998 (removed)
Lawler, Justus George. A review of Justus George Lawler's Hopkins Re-Constructed: Life, Poetry, and the Tradition Reviewed by Elisabeth Brown in Continuum, 1998 (removed)
LeVasseur, Jeanne. Scholarly article discusses various critical interpretations of Hopkins' sprung rhythm, from Victorian Poetry, Vol. 36, no. 4, Winter 1998, "Sprung Rhythm: Purged of Dross like Gold" (removed)
Morlier, Margaret M. Scholarly article discusses violence in Hopkins' themes, imagery, and syntax. In Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 2, Summer 1997, "Barbarous in Beauty": The Violence of Time in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (removed)
Introduction, Texts, and Web Sites
The Victorian Web section on Gerard Manley Hopkins has good essays on Hopkins' writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background
"Victorianism." From George Landow's Victorian Web
Jackson, Lee. "A Dictionary of Victorian London." Victorian social history through a "dictionary" of Victorian institutions
"Monuments and Dust," a project by an international group of scholars who are creating a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London/
A guide to research resources from the VICTORIA discussion list for Victorian Studies
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