gerard manley hopkins
Victorian poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins

ExploreThe Gerard Manley Hopkins Archive (1987 - 2024)

A collection of lectures delivered at The Hopkins International Festival since
the Festival inception in 1987.

Landscape in Hopkins and Egan Poetry 
Walt Whitman and Hopkins Poetry
Emily Dickenson and Hopkins Poetry
Dualism in Hopkins

Lectures from GM HOPKINS FESTIVAL 2023

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

    2. 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


  2. Hopkins Trees and Birds Margaret Ellsberg

    3. 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

     

  3. 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.
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  4. Hopkins and Death Eamon Kiernan

    5. -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

Lectures from Hopkins Literary Festival July 2022

hopkins notebook

Hopkins's Manuscript Notebook


Lectures delivered at the Hopkins Literary Festival since 1987

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