The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
Author: Elizabeth Maconchy
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13:
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 0141397853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' incomparably brilliant poetry, ranging from the ecstasy of 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). Hopkins' Poems and Prose is available in Penguin Classics.
The Hound of Heaven
Author: Francis Thompson
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Author: Joseph J. Feeney
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1317021193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenowned Hopkins expert Joseph J. Feeney, SJ, offers a fresh take on Gerard Manley Hopkins which shakes our understanding of his poetry and his life and points towards the next phase in Hopkins studies. While affirming the received view of Hopkins as a major poet of nature, religion, and psychology, Feeney finds a pervasive, rarely noticed playfulness by employing both the theory of play and close reading of his texts. This new Hopkins lived a playful life from childhood till death as a student who loved puns and jokes and wrote parodies, comic verse, and satires; as a Jesuit who played and organized games and had "a gift for mimicry;" and most significantly, as a poet and prose stylist who rewards readers with unexpected displays of whimsy and incongruity, even, strikingly, in "The Wreck of the Deutschland," "The Windhover," and the "Terrible Sonnets." Feeney convincingly argues that Hopkins's distinctive playfulness is inextricably bound to his sense of fun, his creativity, his style, and his competitiveness with other poets. In unexpected images, quirky metaphors, strange perspectives, puns, coinages, twisted syntax, wordmusic, and sprung rhythm, we see his playful streak burst forth to adorn those works critics consider his most brilliant. No one who absorbs this book's radical readings will ever see and hear Hopkins's poetry and prose quite the way they used to.
On Poetry and Craft
Author: Theodore Roethke
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2013-07-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1619320924
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre." Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to imaginative possibilities, offers tender advice to young writers, and zings darts at stuffed shirts, lightweights and fools. "Art is our defense against hysteria and death." With the assistance of Roethke's widow, this volume has been edited to include the finest selections from out of print collections of prose and journal entries. Focused on the making and teaching of poetry,On Poetry and Craft will be prized in the classroom-and outrageous Roethke quotes will once again pepper our conversations. "You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is." Theodore Roethke was of an illustrious generation of poets which included Sexton, Plath, Lowell, Berryman, and like them he received nearly every major award in poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize and twice the National Book Award. In spite of his fame, he remained a legendary teacher, known for the care and attention he gave to his students, poets such as James Wright, Carolyn Kizer, Tess Gallagher, and Richard Hugo. Roethke died on August 1, 1963, while swimming in a friend's pool. "But before I'm reduced to an absolute pulp by my own ambivalence, I must say goodbye. The old lion perisheth. Nymphs, I wish you the swoops of many fish. May your search for the abiding be forever furious." On Poetry and Craft I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods. We can't escape what we are, and I'm afraid many of my notions about verse (I haven't too many) have been conditioned by the fact that for nearly 25 years I've been trying to teach the young something about the nature of verse by writing it--and that with very little formal knowledge of the subject or previous instruction. So it's going to be lik
Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927–77
Author: Jenny Doctor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-03-25
Total Pages: 601
ISBN-13: 1000090019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and the Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977). These two innovative and talented women are highly regarded for their music, their professional activities and their roles in British musical life. The edition comprises around 200 letters from 1927 to 1977, none of which have been published before, along with scholarly introductions and contextualizations. Interwoven commentaries, in tandem with carefully constructed appendices, frame the letter texts. Moreover, the commentaries and introductory essays highlight and track the development of important themes and issues that characterize the study of twentieth-century British music today. This edition presents a dialogue, through both sides of a unique correspondence, offering an alternative commentary on musical and cultural developments of this period.
Poetry, Philosophy and Theology in Conversation
Author: Francesca Bugliani Knox
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-05
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1351796011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a collection of essays that explains how literature, philosophy and theology have explored the role of wonder in our lives, particularly through poetry. Wonder has been an object of fascination for these disciplines from the Greek antiquity onwards, yet the connections between their views on the subject are often ignored in subject specific studies. The book is divided into three parts: Part I opens the conversation on wonder in philosophy, Part II is given to theology and Part III to literary perspectives. An international set of contributors, including poets as well as scholars, have produced a study that looks beyond traditional chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries, both within the individual essays themselves and in respect to one another. The volume’s wide historical framework is punctuated by four poems by contemporary poets on the theme of wonder. An unconventional foray into one of the best-known themes of the European tradition, this book will be of great interest to scholars of literature, theology and philosophy.
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2009-05-06
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1442928328
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Gerard Manley HopkinsA Critical Study
Author: S.K. Swarnkar
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9788126905478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Present Book, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Critical Study, Aims To Introduce The Readers To The Universally Acknowledged English Poet G.M. Hopkins. Although Not Recognized In His Times, His Popularity Has Increased With The Passing Of Years And Today His Poems Are Held In High Esteem. His Concept Of Poetry And Poetic Diction Distinguished Him From His Contemporary Victorian Poets. He Has Been Held By Many As Belonging More To The Twentieth Century Than The Nineteenth, Owing To His Technical Innovation And Intense Style. In His Poetry, The Rhythm Of The Verse Has Been Perfectly Fused With The Flow And Varying Emphasis Of Spoken Language. In Fact, Hopkins Skilfully United The Rhythmical Freedom Of The Middle Ages, The Religious Intensity Of The Early Seventeenth Century, The Response To Nature Of The Early Nineteenth, And He Envisioned The Twentieth Century In Challenging Conventional Encumbrances In Poetic Form.The Present Book Makes An In-Depth Study Of All The Aspects Of Poetic Art Of Hopkins. Since Hopkins Poems Have Been Considered By Many Students Of English Literature As Difficult To Analyse, The Book Aims At Providing A Complete Analytic Exposition Of His Major Works So As To Induce Interest In Readers By Enabling Them To Have An Easy Understanding Of His Poetic Style And Works. Beginning With A Biographical Sketch Of The Poet, The Book Elucidates His Theory Of Poetry. His Concepts Of Inscape , Instress , And Sprung Rhythm Have Been Much Discussed. The Book Acquaints The Readers With Hopkins Treatment Of Nature Which Has Always Been The Background Of His Poems. A Critical Analysis Of His Major Poems Is Another Attraction Of The Present Book.It Is Hoped That The Book Would Be Highly Useful To The Students And Teachers Of English Literature. It Will Encourage The General Readers To Read The Masterpiece Works Of G.M. Hopkins.
A Not-so-unexciting Life
Author: Carmel Posa
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0879072695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, written by eighteen monks, nuns, and lay scholars from seven countries and four continents, aims to recognize the contribution that Michael Casey has made to Cistercian and Benedictine life over the past forty years. Acclaimed as one of the most significant writers in the Benedictine and Cistercian tradition, Casey has published over one hundred articles and reviews in various journals, written more than eighteen books, and edited many more books and journals. He is a world-renowned retreat master, lecturer, and formator. Contributors include: Carmel Posa, SGS; David Tomlins, OCSO; Helen Lombard, SGS; Manuela Scheiba, OSB; David Barry, OSB; Mary Collins, OSB; Brendan Thomas, OSB; Elias Dietz, OCSO; Constant J. Mews; Bernardo Bonowitz, OCSO; Terrence Kardong, OSB; Elizabeth Freeman; Austin Cooper, OMI; Katharine Massam; Margaret Malone, SGS; Bernhard A. Eckerstorfer, OSB; Columba Stewart, OSB; Francisco Rafael de Pascual, OCSO; and Bishop Graeme Rutherford
