Gerard Manley Hopkins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Hopkins (1844-89), a Jesuit priest who at times burned his poems and at others insisted they should not be published. His main themes are how he, nature and God relate to each other. His friend Robert Bridges preserved Hopkins’ poetry and, once printed in 1918, works such as The Windhover, Pied Beauty and As Kingfishers Catch Fire were celebrated for their inventiveness and he was seen as a major poet, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian age.

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Guests

• Catherine Phillips No other episodes
  R J Owens Fellow in English at Downing College, University of Cambridge
• Jane Wright 2 episodes
  Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol
• Martin Dubois No other episodes
  Assistant Professor in Nineteenth Century Literature at Durham University

Reading list

• Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Daniel Brown (Liverpool University Press, 2004) Google Books →
• Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry
  Matthew Campbell (Cambridge University Press, 2008) Google Books →
• Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience
  Martin Dubois (Cambridge University Press, 2017) Google Books →
• The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry
  Eric Griffiths (Oxford University Press, 2018) Google Books →
• The Major Works
  Gerard Manley Hopkins (ed. Catherine Phillips) (Oxford University Press, 2009) Google Books →
• The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Gerard Manley Hopkins (ed. Lesley Higgins) Google Books →
• Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief
  Michael D. Hurley (Bloomsbury, 2017) Google Books →
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: Early Poetic Manuscripts and Notebooks vol. I
  Norman H. MacKenzie (ed.) (Garland Publishing, 1989) Google Books →
• The Later Poetic Manuscripts vol. II
  Norman H. MacKenzie (ed.) (Garland Publishing, 1991)
• The Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Norman H. MacKenzie (Clarendon Press, 1990)
• A Reader's Guide to Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Norman H. MacKenzie (St Joseph's University Press, 2008) Google Books →
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life
  Robert Bernard Martin (Faber, 2011) Google Books →
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works
  Catherine Phillips (ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2002)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Visual World
  Catherine Phillips (Oxford University Press, 2007) Google Books →
• Hopkins: A Literary Biography
  Norman White (Clarendon Press, 1992) Google Books →

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Hello, Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844 to 1889, has been called the greatest Victorian poet for his vivid imagery and his innovation with works such as The Windhover, Pied Beauty and As Kingfishers Catch Fire.