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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

A selective list of online literary criticism for the nineteenth-century Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, with links to reliable biographical and introductory material and signed, peer-reviewed, and scholarly literary criticism.

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Introduction & Historical Context

"Gerard Manley Hopkins." A short biographical introduction to Hopkins, with text for some of his best known poems, and links to other Victorian poets. From the prestigious Academy of American Poets.

Fennell, Frank Jr. A substantial introduction to Gerard Manley Hopkins. Literary Encyclopedia, 16 August 2004 [subscription service].

"Gerard Manley Hopkins" at the Victorian Web, ed. George Landow, section on Gerard Manley Hopkins has essays on Hopkins' writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background.

"Victorianism." Victorian Web, ed. George Landow.

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.

Literary Criticism

Egan, Desmond. "Hopkins' Influence on Poetry." In Saving Beauty: Further Studies in Hopkins (Garland 1994) [subscription service].

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.

Leavis, F.R. "Gerard Manley Hopkins." In New Bearings in English Poetry (Chatto & Windus 1938) [subscription service].

Richards, I.A. "Gerard Hopkins." The Dial 81 (1926) [subscription service].

Winters, Yvor. "The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins" The The Hudson Review 1, 4 (Winter 1949) [subscription service].

Hopkins International Summer School

[Articles provided by the Hopkins International Summer School, listed below, can still be found on the Hopkins ISS web site using the search engine there.]

Adamson, William. "Live Beyond the Severed Ends: Gerard M. Hopkins & Louis MacNeice."

Arkins, Brian. "Representing the Material World: Hopkins and the Reality of Christ's Resurrection."

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

Badin, Donatella Abbate. "'To R.B.'Gerard Manley Hopkins' Final Words on Childbearing and Creativity."

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

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

Bozdechova, Ivana. "Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Czech Environment."

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

Edmondson, Hank T. "Flannery O'Connor, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Silence."

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

Ferrini, Lara. "Le Occasioni or meeting points between English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and Italian poet, Eugenio Montale."

Higgins, Lesley. "'She Rears Herself': Feminist Possibilities in Hopkins' Poetry."

Kenner, Hugh. The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins is compared to that of Alexander Pope, William Blake, Charles Algernon Swinburne, and W.B. Yeats.

Moulin, Joanny. "'Meaning motion'; Gerard Manley Hopkins with Heraclitus via Heidegger."

Murray, Gerry. "GM Hopkins: His influence on John Berryman."

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

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.

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

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