Most Viewed Lectures in The Hopkins Archive

The GM Hopkins Archive contains more than 150 lectures on Hopkins poetry and Hopkins related topics, all generously donated by Festival participants, to our Archive since our foundation in 1987.

1. Style in Hopkins's Poetry
   Brian Arkins, NUIG , Ireland
2. Short Biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins
   Elaine Murphy
3. God's Grandeur, a Close Reading
   William Adamson,
4. Hopkins Poetry: Inscaping the Heart
   A Kedzierska, Lublin, Poland
5. Irish Exile and the Terrible Sonnets
   Peter Milward SJ, Tokyo Univ, Japan.
6. Hopkins and his Dublin Friends
   Michael McGinley, Dublin
7. Hopkins and Patrick Kavanagh
   Una Agnew, Milltown Institute, Dublin
8. Hopkins and St Patrick's Breastplate
   Sean Bagnal, President, The Hopkins Society
9. 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire'.
   Desmond Egan, The Hopkins Society
10. Hopkins and the Victorians
    Hugh Kenner, Athens Univ, Georgia, USA

Lectures from GM HOPKINS FESTIVAL 2023

• Vision and perception in GM Hopkins’s ‘The peacock’s eye’ Katarzyna Stefanowicz

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s diary entries from his early Oxford years are a medley of poems, fragments of poems or prose texts but also sketches of natural phenomena or architectural (mostly gothic) features. In a letter to Alexander Baillie written around the time of composition He was planning to follow in the footsteps of the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who had been known for writing poetry alongside painting pictures ... Read more

• Hopkins Trees and Birds Margaret Ellsberg

Margaret Ellsberg discusses Hopkins's connection with trees and birds, and how in everything he wrote, he associates wild things with a state of rejuvenation. In a letter to Robert Bridges in 1881 about his poem “Inversnaid,” he says “there’s something, if I could only seize it, on the decline of wild nature.” It turns out that Hopkins himself--eye-witness accounts to the contrary notwithstanding--was rather wild. Read more

• Joyce, Newman and Hopkins : Desmond Egan

Joyce's friend, Jacques Mercanton has recorded that he regarded Newman as ‘the greatest of English prose writers’. Mercanton adds that Joyce spoke excitedly about an article that had just appeared in The Irish Times and had to do with the University of Dublin, “sanctified’ by Cardinal Newman, Gerard Manley Hopkins and himself Read more ...

• Hopkins and Death Eamon Kiernan

An abiding fascination with death can be identified in the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Easily taken for a sign of pathological morbidity, the poet's interest in death can also be read more positively as indicating, his strong awareness of a fundamental human challenge and his deployment of his intellectual and artistic gifts to try to meet it. Hopkins's understanding of death is apocalyptic. ... As will be shown, apocalyptic thought reaches beyond temporal finality. Hopkins's apocalyptic view of death shows itself with perhaps the greatest consequence in those few works which make the actual event of death a primary concern and which, moreover, leave in place the ordinariness of dying, as opposed to portrayals of the exceptional deaths of saints and martyrs. Read more

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Lectures from Hopkins Literary Festival July 2022

• Landscape in Hopkins and Egan Poetry Giuseppe Serpillo
• Walt Whitman and Hopkins Poetry Desmond Egan
• Emily Dickenson and Hopkins Poetry Brett Millier
• Dualism in Hopkins Brendan Staunton SJ Brendan Staunton SJ

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