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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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  1. Author's Preface

    11:30

  2. For a Picture of St. Dorothea

    1:59

  3. Heaven - Haven

    0:45

  4. The Habit of Perfection

    2:53

  5. The Wreck of the Deutschland

    22:59

  6. Penmaen Pool

    2:53

  7. The Silver Jubilee

    1:36

  8. God’s Grandeur

    1:29

  9. The Starlight Night

    1:34

  10. Spring

    1:27

  11. The Lantern out of Doors

    1:30

  12. The Sea and the Skylark

    1:36

  13. The Windhover

    1:44

  14. Pied Beauty

    1:10

  15. Hurrahing in Harvest

    1:39

  16. The Caged Skylark

    1:32

  17. In the Valley of the Elwy

    1:30

  18. The Loss of the Eurydice

    8:43

  19. The May Magnificat

    3:01

  20. Binsey Poplars

    1:57

  21. Duns Scotus’s Oxford

    1:45

  22. Henry Purcell

    2:28

  23. Peace

    1:24

  24. The Bugler’s First Communion

    4:18

  25. Morning Midday and Evening Sacrifice

    1:32

  26. Andromeda

    1:29

  27. The Candle Indoors

    1:32

  28. The Handsome Heart

    1:35

  29. At the Wedding March

    1:06

  30. Felix Randal

    1:52

  31. Brothers

    2:44

  32. Spring and Fall

    1:16

  33. Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves

    2:37

  34. Inversnaid

    1:26

  35. 'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame'

    1:32

  36. Ribblesdale

    1:27

  37. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

    5:49

  38. The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe

    6:45

  39. To what serves Mortal Beauty?

    2:03

  40. [The Soldier]

    1:51

  41. [Carrion Comfort]

    2:18

  42. 'No worst, there is none'

    1:46

  43. Tom’s Garland

    2:19

  44. Harry Ploughman

    2:04

  45. 'To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life'

    1:32

  46. 'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'

    1:44

  47. 'Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray'

    1:41

  48. 'My own heart let me have more have pity on'

    1:31

  49. That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection

    3:11

  50. St. Alphonsus Rodriguez

    1:35

  51. 'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'

    1:52

  52. To R. B.

    1:33

  53. Summa

    0:32

  54. 'What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been'

    1:01

  55. On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People

    3:17

  56. 'The sea took pity: it interposed with doom'

    0:37

  57. [Ash-boughs]

    1:55

  58. 'Hope holds to Christ the mind’s own mirror out'

    1:15

  59. St. Winefred’s Well

    13:40

  60. 'What shall I do for the land that bred me'

    1:47

  61. 'The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less'

    1:17

  62. Cheery Beggar

    1:01

  63. 'Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit'

    0:46

  64. 'The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose'

    1:25

  65. The Woodlark

    2:46

  66. Moonrise

    1:14

  67. 'Repeat that, repeat'

    0:47

  68. On a piece of music

    0:23

  69. 'The child is father to the man'

    0:47

  70. 'The shepherd’s brow, fronting forked lightning'

    1:31

  71. To his Watch

    1:16

  72. 'Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind'

    0:44

  73. Epithalamion

    4:36

  74. 'Thee, God, I come from, to thee go'

    1:37

  75. 'To him who ever thought with love of me'

    0:48

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Gerard Manley Hopkins died in 1889 having published virtually nothing. He was a Jesuit priest who burned his early verse on entering the order and spent years unsure whether writing poems was compatible with his vocation. His friend Robert Bridges kept the manuscripts, waited nearly thirty years, and finally issued them in 1918, at which point a Victorian priest turned out to be one of the founding voices of modern poetry. The language is compressed and hammered, driven by what Hopkins called sprung rhythm, closer to how a person actually speaks than to metronome meter. "The Windhover" and "Pied Beauty" praise a God visible in the physical world. The late sonnets record the desolation of a man who could no longer feel that presence. Free PDF and EPUB.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest who converted to Catholicism under Newman's influence and taught classics in Dublin. He published almost nothing in his lifetime. Three decades after his death, his work reshaped what English poetry could sound like.

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First published
1918
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
132
Language
English
Formats
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