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!
"Pied Beauty" [Best known; 2nd posting]
"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:
Chokecherries, White Mountains of Arizona October 2021 |