Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work / / by Todd K. Bender.

In his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins was known as a poet only by a small circle of his friends. More than any other major Victorian writer, he was recovered and presented as a poet to modern readers by editors and scholars of the first half of the twentieth century. This book analyzes how and to w...

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Year of Publication:1966
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 172 p.)
Notes:The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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Table of Contents:
  • The critical response to the first and second editions of the poems
  • The publication of the prose and a note on the unpublished notebooks
  • The non-logical structure of "the wreck of the Deutschland": Hopkins and Pindar
  • Non-logical syntax: Latin and Greek hyperbaton
  • Metaphysical imagery and explosive meaning: Crashow, Hopkins, and Martial.