Hopkins' Idealism: Philosophy, Physics, Poetry

by Daniel Brown

Overview

Hopkins' Idealism provides a thorough re-examination of the nineteenth-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), whose early writings on philosophy have to date received little critical attention. It is the first full-length study of Hopkins' largely unpublished Oxford undergraduate essays and notes on philosophy and mechanics. The volume also offers radical new readings of some of Hopkins' best-known poems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198183532
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/10/1997
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	5.68(w) x 8.75(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

University of Western Australia

Editorial Reviews

"The author drives his extremely well researched arguments with copious, often delightful references to the poetry. This important book deserves the attention not only of Hopkins scholars but of all students of 19th-century thought."—Choice

From the Publisher

Brown (English, U. of Western Australia) cites British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' (1844-89) unpublished Oxford essays on philosophy to challenge the prevailing view of him as a conservative High-Church ritualist. He finds a boldly speculative intellectual liberal less concerned with Christian factionalism than with countering contemporary threats to faith itself, particularly scientism. He traces Hopkins' thought to the British Idealism he encountered at Oxford and the new high-energy physics of the 1850s and 1860s. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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