GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)

A selective bibliography of 30 active links for Gerard Manley Hopkins, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages


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Literary Criticism

Adamson, William. "Live Beyond the Severed Ends: Gerard M. Hopkins & Louis MacNeice," a lecture delivered at the Gerard Manley Hopkins International Summer School(ISS), from the archives of the ISS

Arkins, Brian. "Representing the Material World: Hopkins and the Reality of Christ's Resurrection," Lecture delivered at the Hopkins ISS, July 2000

Arkins, Brian. "Style in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins," in Hopkins ISS

Badin, Donatella Abbate. "'To R.B.'Gerard Manley Hopkins' Final Words on Childbearing and Creativity," a lecture presented at the Hopkins ISS

Ballinger, Philip. "John Ruskin: Gerard Manley Hopkins's Silent Don," In Hopkins ISS

Bizzini, Chantal. "Victorian English poet, G.M. Hopkins and Hart Crane: visionary poets and witnesses of their time," in Hopkins ISS

Bozdechova, Ivana. "Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Czech Environment," a Lecture delivered at the Hopkins ISS

Cronin, Meoghan Byrne. "'Earth's Old Groping' The Natural World and Percipience in the writings of both Hopkins and Thomas Hardy," In Hopkins ISS

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

Enozawa, Kazuyoshi. "Christina Rossetti's "Escapist" Poems and Hopkins's "Heaven-Haven"' in Hopkins ISS

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 courtesy Hopkins ISS

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

Higgins, Lesley. "'SHE REARS HERSELF' Feminist Possibilities in Hopkins's Poetry," in Hopkins ISS

Hollis, Hilda. (removed by VP) Scholarly article discusses 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

Justice, Donald. Poet Donald Justice writes on Hopkins' "benign obscurity" in The New Criterion

Kenner, Hugh. "Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins compared to Victorians Pope, Blake, Swinbourne and even Yeats" [Alexander Pope, William Blake, Charles Algernon Swinburne, W.B. Yeats]. A lecture delivered at the Gerard Manley Hopkins ISS, July 2000

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," Scholarly article discusses "The Wreck of the Deutschland," comparing Christian and post-Christian versions of the shipwreck paradigm

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 from http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/english/19c/books/rev-0-8264-1058-8.html)

LeVasseur, Jeanne.(removed by VP) 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."

Morlier, Margaret M. (removed by VP) 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

Moulin, Joanny. "'MEeaning motion'; Gerard Manley Hopkins with Heraclitus via Heidegger," A lecture delivered at the GM Hopkins ISS

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

Obed, Leonara. "Gerard Manley Hopkins and Oscar Wilde - both Writers, Poets and Victorians," in Hopkins ISS

O'Brien, Kevin.(removed by VP) Scholarly article discusses echoes of Prometheus Bound and the Book of Job in "The Wreck of the Deutschland." From Victorian Poetry, Vol. 36, no. 3, Fall 1998, "Saying Yes at Lightning,"

Plotkin, Cary H. "Towards a Poetics of Transcendence after Charles Darwin: The Aspect of Nature," Scholarly essay 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

Whitney, Tamora. "Hopkins and Whitman: Mother Nature's Sons," in Hopkins ISS.

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. From a class on Victorianism by professor Zirra, University of Bucharest 2003


Introductory, overview, unsigned material

The Victorian Web section on Gerard Manley Hopkins has good essays on Hopkins' writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background

An introduction to Hopkins from a web site called Illuminating Lives

The Gerard Manley Hopkins ISS in Monasterevin, Kildare, Ireland has additional articles on Hopkins. This organization has archived all lectures delivered since 1987


Texts and Web Sites

A guide to research resources from the VICTORIA discussion list for Victorian Studies

For a list of Hopkins' etexts available on the internet use this link to the On-Line Books Page, a search engine that provides links to full texts on the internet

A Hopkins web site from Prof. R.J.C. Watt with links to etexts and criticism


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