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Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141397853 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 60
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'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' incomparably brilliant poetry, ranging from the ecstasy of 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). Hopkins' Poems and Prose is available in Penguin Classics.
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141397853 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 60
Book Description
'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' incomparably brilliant poetry, ranging from the ecstasy of 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). Hopkins' Poems and Prose is available in Penguin Classics.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 1443441236 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 9
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A meditation on death and mortality, “The Conqueror Worm” describes a cryptic and ghoulish play that represents the inevitability of death. Despite the fact that his first published works were books of poetry, during his lifetime Edgar Allan Poe was recognized more for his literary criticism and prose than his poetry. However, Poe’s poetic works have since become as well-known as his famous stories, and reflect similar themes of mystery and the macabre. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Author: Daniel Westover Publisher: ISBN: 1942954360 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 354
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In terms of literary history, Gerard Manley Hopkins has been difficult to pin down. Many of his concerns - industrialism, religious faith and doubt, science, language - were common among Victorian writers, but he is often championed as a proto-modernist despite that he avoids the self-conscious allusiveness and indirectness that typify much high modernist poetry. It is partly because Hopkins cannot be pigeonholed that his influence remains relevant. The Fire that Breaks brings together an international team of scholars to explore for the first time Hopkins's extended influence on the poets and novelist who defined Anglo-American literature throughout the past century.
Author: Robert Pinsky Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 1324001798 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 256
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A bold new anthology of poems that contend with the most extreme human emotions, from former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate, personal source for the urgency of these experiences. Poems get under our skin; they engage with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall—its title inspired by a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem—acclaimed poet Robert Pinsky gives us more than 130 poems that explore emotion at its most expansive, distinct, and profound. With seven illuminating chapters and succinct headnotes for each poem, Pinsky leads us through the book’s sweeping historical range. Each chapter, with contents chronologically presented from Shakespeare to Terrance Hayes, Dante to Patricia Lockwood, shows the persistence and variation in our states of mind. “The Sleep of Reason” explores sanity and the imagination, moving from William Cowper’s “Lines Written During a Time of Insanity” to Nicole Sealey’s “a violence.” “Grief” includes Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs last in the Door-yard Bloom’d” and Marie Howe’s “What the Living Do,” and “Manic Laughter” highlights both Lewis Carroll and Martín Espada. Each poem reveals something new about the vastness of human emotion; taken together they offer a sweeping ode to the power of poetry. Guided by “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall demonstrates how extreme feelings can be complementary and contradicting, and how poetry is not just an expression of emotion, but emotion itself.
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins Publisher: ISBN: 9781848615342 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 84
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This volume contains the complete text of the great Hopkins poem, together with Nigel Foxell's introduction and his copious notes, touching on nearly every line in the poem. An indispensable reader's guide to one of the great poems in the language.
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0375725660 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 242
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Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of English poetry's most brilliant stylistic innovators, and one of the most distinguished poets of any age. However, during his lifetime he was known not as a poet but as a Jesuit priest, and his faith was essential to his work. His writings combine an intense feeling for nature with an ecstatic awareness of its divine origins, most remarkably expressed in his magnificent and highly original 'sprung rhythm.' This collection contains not only all of Hopkins’ significant poetry, but also selections from his journals, sermons, and letters, all chosen for their spiritual guidance and insight. Hopkins didn't allow the publication of most of his poems during his lifetime, so his genius was not appreciated until after his death. Now, more than a hundred years later, his words are still a source of inspiration and sheer infectious joy in the radiance of God's creation.
Author: Jack R. Harding Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 384
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"In spite of all the efforts of critics and artist-critics from the time of Aristotle to today to define what poetry is, what it ought to be, and how it does whatever it does to its readers we still do not know what we are talking about when we talk about poetry. We have come a long way down the road which leads to knowing what we are talking about, but that is the extent of the boast we can make. The end of the road, if indeed there is an end, still cannot be seen. In this light I.A. Richards' notion that we cannot trust any theory of poetry which is not so intricate that it cannot be applied makes perfect sense. Poetry is an intricate web composed of necessary and inextricable fibers. These fibers may themselves be made from numerous undefinable filaments. In this study I attempt to progress a little farther down that road which leads toward knowledge about poetry. In this study two inextricable fibers, meter and meaning, and their relationship, are examined. The history of criticism of the literature of Hopkins is a clamorous cry of confusion. Talented critics hold opposite points-of-view as they wrestle with the often strained and tense poetry Hopkins has given us. Because of his unique and powerful poetry Hopkins has risen from obscurity to become firmly established in the English poetic tradition. Tradition itself has been dramatically altered by the poetry of Hopkins. He is a rare poet whose creative experiential poems have cause a plethora of controversial criticism. Such criticism is testimony to the full and complex nature of his poetry. Such poetry is, surely, well worth studying - in and for itself, and for what it says to us about the nature of all poetry, and the nature of man. "No worst, there is none," one of the "terrible posthumous sonnets" written between 1885 and 1889 is an example of Hopkins at his best. In this sonnet technique and powerful emotion are mixed precisely into an admixture which creates as profound an experience as any literature can create. Criticism of "No worst," like criticism of Hopkins' work in general, is lively with disagreement. In these fourteen lines all the skill and cunning of sophisticated critics are tested. In these fourteen lines readers are tempest tossed through a complete dramatic event which leaves them breathless, bewildered, and different somehow. "No worst, there is none," because of how all its poetic fibers are so intimately integrated, is an archetype of the Petrarchan sonnet. Before it is anything else, poetry is a feeling experience. It is something as basic as blood; it runs rhythmically under our skin; it beats in our breasts like our hearts; we feel its sense in its sound before we know what it means. Its commonness of experience speaks to us when no common symbols exist to do so. Among the strategies of pedantic critics must be, as an a priori element, the act of interpretation. If we do not interpret before we criticize we cannot be certain that what we have to say about a poem has any relationship to what the author meant the poem to mean. We come to know what the author means by listening to the sounds he makes: both the qualitative and the quantitative aspects of that sound. Hopkins is a skillfull technician who purposefully uses rhythmic sound to make his poetry say what he wants it to say. He marries meter to meaning perfectly to create his message. Scanning "No worst" enlightens us to the basic structure which underlies the dramatic effect of the whole poem. In this structure meter and meaning are found to be, if not the same thing, inextricably united. Scansions based on different points-of -view and from varied backgrounds of experience and maturity uncover the same basic structure. This structure provides the constant which simplifies the complex event, which helps settle disputes about meaning in the poem. "No worst, there is none" is the consummate marriage of meter and meaning. It is a poem of praise and celebration. In its lines we find the vindication of the meaningfullness of human life. In it we find an aspect of our complicated selves. After all, we too are composed of necessary and inextricable fibers"--Document.
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