Robyn Schiff shows the poetry in pistols Nov 18, 2008
"I might read Gerard Manley Hopkins in the morning but I'm looking at Vogue by noon," she said. She is taking "some time to think," though she is beginning work on a long poem about vampires. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Who should win the Giller? Who will win? Nov 8, 2008
I'm saying Christianity in the style of Bruce Cockburn and T.S. Eliot and Gerard Manley Hopkins. The accident turns out to be a form of salvation for all concerned. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Eleanor O'Leary, 92; was biographer, book reviewer Jul 20, 2008
In addition to "The Prince of Players," Mrs. O'Leary's earlier books were "Gerard Manley Hopkins - a Life," the biography of one of England's greatest poets; "The West Going Heart," the life of the poet Vachal Lindsay; and "Journey into Faith," the biography of Cardinal John Henry Newman. But she was fascinated with the story of Edwin Booth. (Boston Globe)
Holy Springs in Clwyd Are The Lourd... Jul 16, 2008
The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote a poem around a hundred years ago about St. Winifride s Well and its wild rash and reeling water, that will not wear a print, will not stain a pen; which was the saint s permanent memorial. Just as he described, the spring keeps flowing, and St. Winifrede s memory remains alive, her spring still a place of pilgrimage today. (Suite101.com)
In faraway places, dark entanglements Jun 15, 2008
Moved by the tragedy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, the English poet and Jesuit priest, wrote one of his finest works, "The Wreck of the Deutschland," which he dedicated to the memory of the drowned women. In alternating chapters that are marvels of compression and delicacy, Hansen tells how each nun came to enter the convent - "healthy females hot with love [who] sought a safe object of affection" - how the delicate Hopkins came to maturity both as a priest and a poet, and, not least, how the... (Boston Globe)
Merchant partners with Pops, has never sounded quite so right May 28, 2008
She set an anonymous nursery rhyme, "The Man in the Wilderness," and "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child," a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, to earthy, graceful melodies; both are slated to appear on the artist's forthcoming Children's Poetry Project album, due out in December. Thanks to the strength and clarity of her musical personality, her stately new works made surprising sense alongside "This House Is On Fire," reimagined by orchestrator Stephen Barber as a sinewy, restless meditation, and... (Boston Globe)
A Promising Start May 25, 2008
In its most rewarding sections, the book offers an intriguing fictional meditation on thwarted creativity, as exemplified by Gerard Manley Hopkins and his famous poem "The Wreck of the Deutschland." At other times, it lurches into straightforward biographical mode. The book is least effective in its feeble evocation of the poem's inspiration, five German nuns who were among the shipwreck's victims in the English Channel in 1875. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Truly, madly, deeply Apr 19, 2008
Yeats thought him the finest poet of his generation - better than Auden (whom Eliot initially rejected) and comparable in "rhythmic invention" to Gerard Manley Hopkins. Most critics thought the young Barker a better poet than the young Thomas, and the latter, who called his rival's poems "masturbatory monologues", seems to have been madly jealous. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Three Reasons to Write a Sonnet Mar 23, 2008
A sonnet requires fourteen lines (although there are longer and shorter versions, such as Gerard Manley Hopkins curtal sonnet). Ideally it should have some kind of change in it: an argument and response, an answer to the question, or a shift in mood. (Suite101.com)
A Primary Season of Narcissism Feb 14, 2008
"The world," wrote the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, "is charged with the grandeur of God." The world, perhaps, but the Republican delegate scramble. Maybe Huckabee hopes that his credentials as a potential running mate for McCain will be strengthened if he achieves a (strictly speaking) providential victory in the Texas primary. (Townhall.com)
Windhover Foundation Dec 22, 2007
Named after "The Windhover," a poem written by Gerard Manley Hopkins, the foundation over the years has helped a wide a variety of ventures, including hospices, women's programs, art centers, libraries, playgrounds, parks and arenas. Quad/Graphics is the largest privately held printer of magazines, catalogs and other commercial products in the Western Hemisphere, and the third largest printer - public or private - in the nation. (Thomaston Times, GA)
Griffin: Christmas throughout the world, past and present Dec 18, 2007
Another poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, had seen the same landscape long before, and had written: Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,/All the air things wear that build this world of Wales. Offsetting this beauty for me, however, were the discontents of absence. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
Question time Nov 1, 2007
The fi rst thing I did, apart from Brookside, was a play about Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Jesuit poet. But I do like writing about the British working class. (Guardian Unlimited -- Media)
Governor's all wet Aug 16, 2007
POET GERARD Manley Hopkins had something to say regarding Governor Patrick's plans to follow President Bush's misbegotten policy of letting developers set the pace for the wetlands permitting process. Here, from Hopkins's poem "Inversnaid". (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
"Down Town" is Ferrol Sams latest Jun 15, 2007
But while plotting is minimal, where Sams excels is in a combination of high rhetoric and barnyard humor, in the tradition of Twain, with doses of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edna St. Vincent Millay. As another walk-on character puts it, "If that don't beat a hawg flying sideways.". (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Forever young Jun 12, 2007
"Don't laugh, but I thought it was like the beginning pages of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. You could write about your childhood in a way that was in the voice of childhood but that adults would find interesting." Actually, he says, he really would like to have been a hybrid of Gerard Manley Hopkins and DH Lawrence, with a sprinkling of Jonathan Miller and Peter Ustinov. He sent his book of poems, Mind Your Own Business, off to the woman that had published the play. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Father Hopkins Sonnet Mar 20, 2007
Gerard Manley Hopkins motivation to imitate God prompts him to craft his poems in forms, as Spirit does. Hopkins usually employs the sonnet form. (Suite101.com)
Auden at 100: Mar 1, 2007
(Among my favorites is "Lullaby": "Lay your sleeping head, my love/ Human on my faithless arm.") The early Auden was, as Jarrell put it, "oracular (obscure, original), bad at organization, neglectful of logic, full of astonishing or magical language, intent on his own world and his own forms." This is some of the work I love most, with its curious Icelandic preoccupations (Auden had a romance with the idea of Northernness); the frequency of phrases like "spring's green/ preliminary shiver" and... (Slate)
Review: Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Hart Crane Jan 27, 2007
He came by his obscurity honestly - he didn't read Gerard Manley Hopkins, whose style might have influenced him, until far too late. When you clear away the clutter from his verse, often you find only banalities - Crane flinched from Eliot's dour observations and pince-nez disillusion, wanting to embody a rhapsodic vision of poetry it was difficult not to glaze with sentiment. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Meanwhile: Sweet sadness is upon me Jan 18, 2007
The same emotion is found in the English temperament and pervades our nature poetry from Wordsworth to Gerard Manley Hopkins. Today, from the fiery passion of the tango or flamenco, at one extreme, to the tragic despair of Japanese "enka" ballad at another, most love song traditions are dominated by sentiments of lost love, betrayal, abandonment. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
