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Title: GodÂs Grandeur and Other Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins ISBN: 0-486-28729-7 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 24 October, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Catholic Poetry
Comment: The poetry of Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins is some of the greatest modern Catholic poetry ever produced by an Englishman. Received into the Catholic Church by J.H. Newman and later ordained a Jesuit priest, Fr. Hopkins never made a name for himself while alive. After his death, a friend of his discovered his poetry, compiled it into a short volume, and published it. It immediately became a hit amongst the English, and eventually spread throughout the entire Catholic world.
Hopkins uses a variety of verse (from sprung to your run-of-the-mill iambic pentameter), which makes for an exciting read. Some of his poems, such as GOD'S GRANDEUR and PIED BEAUTY have even made it into a poetry appendix in the American translation of the Catholic breviary. These poems are wonderful starters for meditation, and they capture the thoughts of a man's heart as it aspires towards God. A wonderful read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not poetry for the uninitiated....
Comment: This is a good, inexpensive introduction to Gerard Manley Hopkins. There is a brief section talking about Hopkins and how much of his poetry was lost. This gives you an idea of who is giving you this poetry.
For the poetry student, the Author's Preface is essential. Here, Sprung Rhythm is explained. If you are not a serious student of poetry, this will probably be lost on you. It is not necessary to read the poetry, but to understand Hopkins' style, it is a must-read.
The poetry itself is filled with religious and classical images and allusions. If you are not well-read, like me, you may not get every thing that Hopkins is explaining to you. There are some notes in the back, but these are limited. I have no doubt that Hopkins is intelligent, but I will need to do some extra reading to fully understand all of this.
I think this is a great read. It is not a quick read by any means. This is poetry which is read again and again to get a full understanding. I would also recommend reading this aloud.
Rating: 5
Summary: God's Grandeur... Hopkins shows it well.
Comment: Hopkins is one of those poets hidden from so many because of his subject matter, yet is considered one of the most influential Victorian poets for his use of word combinations, meter and image.
Most his work was published posthumously, as late as 1920 or so, and immediately influenced the likes of T.S. Elliot (AKA, the guy who wrote the poem "Cats" is based on and "Wasteland") and his contemporaries.
While Whitman and Wilde were exalting in themselves, and just after Emerson and Thoreau were helping us see creation, Hopkins demonstrated prowess in pointing readers to see the Creator in the creation.
Atheists won't agree with him, of course, but he says it so well, they will at least go, "Hmm... if I believed, I could see that... yeah, wow, well put." The Catholics will cheer him on, "Atta boy... yep, that guy's a Jesuit!" Not undone are the Protestants who will be so impressed in agreement they'll be happy he was a Christian.
Check out this snippet from "Pied Beauty" "Glory be to God for dappled things--/For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;/For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;/Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches wings;/Landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough;/And 'all tra'des, their gear and tackle and trim." Those accents are in the original.
Delicious to say aloud? You should hear the second verse. His others are as tasty.
This edition is something you want to pop in with a larger Amazon order... buy it on whimsy if you aren't sure. It is an inexpensive as book can get this side of free.
I fully recommend this book.
Anthony Trendl
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Title: Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerald Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Gardner ISBN: 0140420150 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: December, 1983 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Selected Poems by John Donne ISBN: 0486277887 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 23 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Great Sonnets by Paul Negri ISBN: 0486280527 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 23 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot ISBN: 0486400611 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 08 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ISBN: 0486264785 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $1.00 |
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