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Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 108) - Softcover

Book 57 of 81: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Dubois, Martin

 
9781316632239: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 108)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1316632237 ISBN 13: 9781316632239
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

This nuanced yet accessible study is the first to examine the range of religious experience imagined in Hopkins's writing. By exploring the shifting way in which Hopkins imagines religious belief in individual history, Martin Dubois contests established views of his poetry as a unified project. Combining detailed close readings with extensive historical research, Dubois argues that the spiritual awareness manifest in Hopkins's poetry is varied and fluctuating, and that this is less a failure of his intellectual system than a sign of the experiential character of much of his poetry's thought. Individual chapters focus on biblical language and prayer, as well as on the spiritual ideal seen in the figures of the soldier and the martyr, and on Hopkins's ideas of death, judgement, heaven and hell. Offering fresh interpretations of the major poems, this volume reveals a more diverse and exploratory poet than has been recognised.

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About the Author

Martin Dubois is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1316632237
ISBN 13 
9781316632239
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
244