Hopkins Literary Festival 2003

Hopkins and Walter Percy: Language Theorists

Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist, was an admirer of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Samway examines the spiritual lives of these two noted Catholic writers, one a priest and the other a physician. First, the Jesuit connection..

Hopkins and Walter Percy as Language Theorists

How Did Gerard Hopkins Pray?

Of course Gerard Hopkins prayed: he was a committed Christian layman, then a Jesuit, then a priest Here, Father Feeney poses a rarely asked question, "How did Hopkins pray?" His answer considers how he prayed in public, in poetry, and in private.

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Literature and Spirituality

Michael O'Dwyer National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

Literature and Spirituality Michael O'Dwyer explores the manner in which Christian writers of fiction integrate spiritual themes into the fabric of a literary work.This paper exploree three ways in which this is done by the use of the diary form and epistolary form as well as through the symbolic use of space.

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Death and the Transcendent: Jean Sulivan's Anticipated Every Goodbye

Eamon Maher concentrates on French writer, Jean Sulivan's award-winning memoir, Anticipate Every Goodbye, a memoir that deals with the theme of death and the transcendent.

Hopkins and Fremch Writers ...

Flannery O'Connor, Hopkins and Silence

Southern writer Flannery O'Connor and Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, though a century apart, were fellow travelers in their belief in, and demonstration of, lit-erature's ability to guide the reader into an experience of God's transcendence. Both devout Catholics, they used their writing to reflect their conviction that God's grace was palpably evident in the created world.

Flannery O'Connor, Hopkins and Silence

Literature and Spirituality: Hart Crane and Hopkins

Chantal Bizzini examines how Hart Crane heard The Wreck of the Deutschland and was amazed that Hopkins could come so near to a transfiguration into pure musical notation.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Victorian English poet and Jesuit priest, and Hart Crane, the Dionysian American Modernist: how can one imagine two more different directions, two more different lives? We learn, from the Letters of Hart Crane and the two recent Hart Crane biographies by Paul Mariani (14, 15, 291-292, 342, 353, 375) and Clive Fisher (365), that Hart Crane came to visit Yvor Winters for Christmas 1926. Winters read aloud for him Hopkins's Wreck of the Deutschland...

Hopkins and Hart Crane, two different lives

Levelling with God: Transcending the heights and the depths in Hopkins

A culture, like a house, cannot in and of itself be lost; but the individuals who comprise that culture, like that small child, certainly can be. . .

Transcending Heights and the Depths

Hopkins and Polish Poet, Cyprian Kamil Norwid

Cyprian Kamil Norwid, now generally considered the best Polish poet of the second half of the nineteenth century, was born in 1821. He left Warsaw as a young man of twenty-one and lived abroad, mainly in Paris (where he died in penury, almost forgotten in 1883). Although his first poems were published in Polant, his talent as poet and painter unfolded only in exile; a talent, moreover, which was not fully recognized by his contemporaries. (...) Read the rest of this

Hopkins and Polish Poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid

Links to Hopkins Literary Festival 2003

• Scottish View of Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Explore other areas of The Hopkins Archive
• Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Climb to Transcendence
• Hart Crane and Gerard Manley Hopkins
• How Father Hopkins SJ Prays
• Oscar Wilde and Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Flannery O Connor and Hopkins
• Levelling with God
• Polish writer Norwid and Hopkins influence
• Walker Percy and Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

• Morning's Minion: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.
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• 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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