The Fire That Breaks: Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poetic Legacies Westover Daniel
The discovery of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry in the twentieth century was a revelation for post-war poets, who discovered a voice seemingly bottled for their own time. This influence has not faded…
Specifikacia The Fire That Breaks: Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poetic Legacies Westover Daniel
The discovery of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry in the twentieth century was a revelation for post-war poets, who discovered a voice seemingly bottled for their own time. This influence has not faded in the twenty-first century; in fact, it has grown all the more pervasive as poets from many backgrounds and nations have found, in the voice of this nineteenth-century Jesuit, a revolutionary way of addressing contemporary concerns relating to human imagination, ecology, green ethics, the role of art, and individual spirituality. In a climate where high modernism, Whitmanic free verse, and the confessional lyric are often held up as contemporary poetry's dominant forerunners, this book proposes a more complex genealogy, tracing back to Hopkins and his influential early admirers current strands of emotional and spiritual openness, pleasure in word play and sonic textures, and veneration of