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G.M. Hopkins (1844-1889)
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Literary Criticism
Articles provided by the Hopkins International Summer School, previously cataloged here, were moved. They can still be found on the Hopkins ISS web site using their search engine.
Adamson, William. "Live Beyond the Severed Ends: Gerard M. Hopkins & Louis MacNeice." Hopkins International Summer School (ISS)
Arkins, Brian. "Representing the Material World: Hopkins and the Reality of Christ's Resurrection." Hopkins ISS, July 2000
Arkins, Brian. "Style in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins." Hopkins ISS
Badin, Donatella Abbate. "'To R.B.'Gerard Manley Hopkins' Final Words on Childbearing and Creativity." Hopkins ISS
Ballinger, Philip. "John Ruskin: Gerard Manley Hopkins' Silent Don." Hopkins ISS
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 (2001)
Bizzini, Chantal. "Victorian English poet, G.M. Hopkins and Hart Crane: visionary poets and witnesses of their time." Hopkins ISS
Bozdechova, Ivana. "Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Czech Environment." Hopkins ISS
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." Hopkins ISS
Edmondson, Hank T. "Flannery O'Connor, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Silence." Hopkins ISS, July 2003
Enozawa, Kazuyoshi. "Christina Rossetti's 'Escapist' Poems and Hopkins' 'Heaven-Haven.'" Hopkins ISS
Fennell, Frank Jr. A substantial introduction to Gerard Manley Hopkins. Literary Encyclopedia, 16 August 2004
Ferrini, Lara. "Le Occasioni or meeting points between English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and Italian poet, Eugenio Montale." Hopkins ISS
Groves, Peter. "Hopkins and Tractarianism." Victorian Poetry (Spring 2006)
Higgins, Lesley. "'She Rears Herself': Feminist Possibilities in Hopkins' Poetry." Hopkins ISS
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." 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. Hopkins ISS, July 2000
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. Victorian Web.
Moulin, Joanny. "'Meaning motion'; Gerard Manley Hopkins with Heraclitus via Heidegger." Hopkins ISS
Murray, Gerry. "GM Hopkins: His influence on John Berryman." Hopkins ISS
Obed, Leonara. "Gerard Manley Hopkins and Oscar Wilde - both Writers, Poets and Victorians." Hopkins ISS
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. Hopkins ISS
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 (2001)
Wormald, Mark. "Hopkins, Hamlet, and the Victorians: Carrion Comfort?" Victorian Poetry (Winter 2002)
Whitney, Tamora. "Hopkins and Whitman: Mother Nature's Sons." Hopkins ISS
Removed Criticism
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." Victorian Poetry 36 (Spring 1998) Advice Not Taken: Attacking Hopkins' Dragon Through Stanza Sixteen (removed)
Muller, Jill. "Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism" [John Henry Newman]. PhD dissertation, Columbia, 2000 (removed)
O'Brien, Kevin. On echoes of Prometheus Bound and the Book of Job in "The Wreck of the Deutschland." Victorian Poetry 36 (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. Victorian Poetry 36 (Winter 1998). "Sprung Rhythm: Purged of Dross like Gold" (removed)
Morlier, Margaret M. Scholarly article discusses violence in Hopkins' themes, imagery, and syntax. Victorian Poetry 35 (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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