Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Literary Life

by Gerald Roberts

Overview

A concise study of the life and poetry of the Victorian priest-poet. Gerald Roberts gives a chronological description and analysis of Hopkins's career and writing, and pays due attention to the Victorian and Jesuit background. The resulting picture is of a man divided between the religious and the aesthetic life, a story of apparent failure and real achievement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333568217
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/26/1994
Series:	Literary Lives
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	153
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - The Road to Parnassus - Chasing the Master - The Convert - Hocking and the Jesuits - The Journal - The Jesuits - Towards the 'Deutschland' - The Return to Poetry - The Poet and the Priest - Oxford - At Bedford Leigh - Liverpool - Glasgow - Training completed - At Stonyhurst - Heraclitean Fire - Afterwards - Bibliography - Notes - Index

Editorial Reviews

The Literary Lives series offers accounts of the literary careers of the most widely read British and Irish authors. The present volume examines and evaluates the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) within the context of his life, particularly that part of it which was spent as a Jesuit, when his major work was written. Acidic paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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