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Hopkins : a literary biography, Norman White
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- Summary
- 'To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life / Among strangers': so begins one of the darkest and most overtly autobiographical of Hopkins's poems, written in Ireland a few years before his death. In this major new biography, more deeply researched, fully documented, and comprehensive than any before it, Norman White uses the intimate evidence of the poems, letters, and journals, his personal knowledge of the places where Hopkins lived, and all surviving documentary records, to explore the life of the priest-poet who constantly felt himself 'the stranger' in his world. It was more than just the enforced restlessness of his life following his conversion and the decision at twenty-four to become a Jesuit--through Hopkins's writings again and again reveal his responsiveness to place, and his poignant sense of having no true home. His inner life was also an unresolved search for answers to his own difficult temperament: a series of crises, in fact, to which his responses were typically extreme, and ultimately unsatisfying. His vivid apprehension of beauty and particularity--in language, in the characters of men, in natural things, in what he perceived as the nature of Christ--was fuelled as much by longing as by calm assurance of belief. It is just this that makes him a supreme poet not only of nature but of the religious condition: the experience of both faith and despair. Norman White investigates Hopkins's background and Oxford student life, and the Roman Catholic world which he entered, carefully and without prejudgements, setting his development and the movement of his thought against the background of Victorian England. The turmoil of Hopkins's strange personality is fully explored, as is the effect of his austere profession on his highly original writings--the journals and poems that are among the most remarkable works of literature in the English language
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 531 pages
- Contents
-
- pt. I. The Boy, 1844-1863. 1. Kate Smith and Manley Hopkins. 2. Stratford. 3. Hampstead. 4. Highgate
- pt. II. The Student, 1863-1868. 5. Balliol College. 6. Freshman Allegiances. 7. Vital Truths of Nature: Hopkins and Ruskin. 8. Useful Information. 9. Studies. 10. Dolben. 11. Religion. 12. Perversion and Estrangement. 13. Decision: Bovey Tracey and Birmingham. 14. Swiss Swan-Song
- pt. III. The Jesuit, 1868-1874. 15. Novitiate: Roehampton, 1868-1870. 16. Philosophate: St Mary's Hall, 1870-1873. 17. Seascapes: The Isle of Man. 18. Teaching: London and Devon, 1873-1874
- pt. IV. The Poet, 1874-1877. 19. St Beuno's. 20. Welsh and Wells. 21. 'The Wreck of the Deutschland'. 22. 'Light, amid the encircling gloom'. 23. 'In my salad days, in my Welsh days'
- pt. V. Fortune's Football, 1877-1884. 24. 'Cobweb, soapsud, and frost-feather permanence': Mount St Mary's, Stonyhurst, Farm Street, Oxford, 1877-1879. 25. 'So fagged, so harried and gallied up and down': Bedford Leigh, Liverpool, Glasgow, 1879-1881. 26. 'Surely one vocation cannot destroy another?': Roehampton Tertianship and Stonyhurst, 1881-1883. 27. 'Careful and subtle fault-finding': Patmore and Hopkins
- pt. VI. The Stranger, 1884-1889. 28. An Irish Row. 29. 'Dapple at end'. 30. 'Dark not day'. 31. Sanctuaries. 32. 'What shall I do for the land that bred me?'. 33. 'I wish then for death'
- Isbn
- 9780198120995
- Label
- Hopkins : a literary biography
- Title
- Hopkins
- Title remainder
- a literary biography
- Statement of responsibility
- Norman White
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 'To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life / Among strangers': so begins one of the darkest and most overtly autobiographical of Hopkins's poems, written in Ireland a few years before his death. In this major new biography, more deeply researched, fully documented, and comprehensive than any before it, Norman White uses the intimate evidence of the poems, letters, and journals, his personal knowledge of the places where Hopkins lived, and all surviving documentary records, to explore the life of the priest-poet who constantly felt himself 'the stranger' in his world. It was more than just the enforced restlessness of his life following his conversion and the decision at twenty-four to become a Jesuit--through Hopkins's writings again and again reveal his responsiveness to place, and his poignant sense of having no true home. His inner life was also an unresolved search for answers to his own difficult temperament: a series of crises, in fact, to which his responses were typically extreme, and ultimately unsatisfying. His vivid apprehension of beauty and particularity--in language, in the characters of men, in natural things, in what he perceived as the nature of Christ--was fuelled as much by longing as by calm assurance of belief. It is just this that makes him a supreme poet not only of nature but of the religious condition: the experience of both faith and despair. Norman White investigates Hopkins's background and Oxford student life, and the Roman Catholic world which he entered, carefully and without prejudgements, setting his development and the movement of his thought against the background of Victorian England. The turmoil of Hopkins's strange personality is fully explored, as is the effect of his austere profession on his highly original writings--the journals and poems that are among the most remarkable works of literature in the English language
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1937-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- White, Norman
- Dewey number
-
- 821/.8
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR4803.H44
- LC item number
- Z924 1992
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Jesuits
- Christian poetry, English
- Poets, English
- Catholics
- Biographie
- Label
- Hopkins : a literary biography, Norman White
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [469]-522) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- pt. I. The Boy, 1844-1863. 1. Kate Smith and Manley Hopkins. 2. Stratford. 3. Hampstead. 4. Highgate -- pt. II. The Student, 1863-1868. 5. Balliol College. 6. Freshman Allegiances. 7. Vital Truths of Nature: Hopkins and Ruskin. 8. Useful Information. 9. Studies. 10. Dolben. 11. Religion. 12. Perversion and Estrangement. 13. Decision: Bovey Tracey and Birmingham. 14. Swiss Swan-Song -- pt. III. The Jesuit, 1868-1874. 15. Novitiate: Roehampton, 1868-1870. 16. Philosophate: St Mary's Hall, 1870-1873. 17. Seascapes: The Isle of Man. 18. Teaching: London and Devon, 1873-1874 -- pt. IV. The Poet, 1874-1877. 19. St Beuno's. 20. Welsh and Wells. 21. 'The Wreck of the Deutschland'. 22. 'Light, amid the encircling gloom'. 23. 'In my salad days, in my Welsh days' -- pt. V. Fortune's Football, 1877-1884. 24. 'Cobweb, soapsud, and frost-feather permanence': Mount St Mary's, Stonyhurst, Farm Street, Oxford, 1877-1879. 25. 'So fagged, so harried and gallied up and down': Bedford Leigh, Liverpool, Glasgow, 1879-1881. 26. 'Surely one vocation cannot destroy another?': Roehampton Tertianship and Stonyhurst, 1881-1883. 27. 'Careful and subtle fault-finding': Patmore and Hopkins -- pt. VI. The Stranger, 1884-1889. 28. An Irish Row. 29. 'Dapple at end'. 30. 'Dark not day'. 31. Sanctuaries. 32. 'What shall I do for the land that bred me?'. 33. 'I wish then for death'
- Control code
- 24106110
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 531 pages
- Isbn
- 9780198120995
- Lccn
- 91004935
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1444914
- Label
- Hopkins : a literary biography, Norman White
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [469]-522) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- pt. I. The Boy, 1844-1863. 1. Kate Smith and Manley Hopkins. 2. Stratford. 3. Hampstead. 4. Highgate -- pt. II. The Student, 1863-1868. 5. Balliol College. 6. Freshman Allegiances. 7. Vital Truths of Nature: Hopkins and Ruskin. 8. Useful Information. 9. Studies. 10. Dolben. 11. Religion. 12. Perversion and Estrangement. 13. Decision: Bovey Tracey and Birmingham. 14. Swiss Swan-Song -- pt. III. The Jesuit, 1868-1874. 15. Novitiate: Roehampton, 1868-1870. 16. Philosophate: St Mary's Hall, 1870-1873. 17. Seascapes: The Isle of Man. 18. Teaching: London and Devon, 1873-1874 -- pt. IV. The Poet, 1874-1877. 19. St Beuno's. 20. Welsh and Wells. 21. 'The Wreck of the Deutschland'. 22. 'Light, amid the encircling gloom'. 23. 'In my salad days, in my Welsh days' -- pt. V. Fortune's Football, 1877-1884. 24. 'Cobweb, soapsud, and frost-feather permanence': Mount St Mary's, Stonyhurst, Farm Street, Oxford, 1877-1879. 25. 'So fagged, so harried and gallied up and down': Bedford Leigh, Liverpool, Glasgow, 1879-1881. 26. 'Surely one vocation cannot destroy another?': Roehampton Tertianship and Stonyhurst, 1881-1883. 27. 'Careful and subtle fault-finding': Patmore and Hopkins -- pt. VI. The Stranger, 1884-1889. 28. An Irish Row. 29. 'Dapple at end'. 30. 'Dark not day'. 31. Sanctuaries. 32. 'What shall I do for the land that bred me?'. 33. 'I wish then for death'
- Control code
- 24106110
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 531 pages
- Isbn
- 9780198120995
- Lccn
- 91004935
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1444914
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