For this new year, I'm reviewing for you all the Gerard Manley Hopkins entries on this blog. There are works by Hopkins himself, plus references to his work. Hopkins was a 19th century English Jesuit poet. He both modernized and stuck with old forms in his work. Enjoy, and Happy 2021!
"God's Grandeur" [2nd best known]
"My Own Heart Let Me Have More Pity On"
Excerpt from "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection."
"Moonless Darkness Stands Between" [Christmas]
"He Hath Abolished the Old Drouth"
Here is Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, reading "God's Grandeur":
Here's an original poem of mine, drawing from a line in God's Grandeur":
This is by a poetess who really admired Hopkins:
Here's a portrait of Hopkins, done in "icon" style:
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| Chokecherries, White Mountains of Arizona October 2021 |
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2 comments:
Thanks; enjoy his appreciation of nature, and bringing the Lord into it. I have to "make allowances" for his Catholicism!
I like "Inversnaid". The place is by Loch Lomond and I visited it a good while ago.
Glad you are liking the Hopkins. I, too, can't agree with all his beliefs. ("The Wreck of the Deutschland" has an expression that is very anti-Lutheran, though slightly coded. And whenever he writes on Mary, he goes off on a very different direction than I would agree with.)
But I did write my thesis for my 1st Master's Degree on his work... at a Lutheran seminary. (It was an MA degree; our church doesn't have women ministers.)
There's a lot in his style. And where his beliefs are similar, a lot in his convictions and his perseverance through the times he felt dark, depressed feelings.
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