Hopkins : a literary biography
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Hopkins : a literary biography
Clarendon press , Oxford University Press, 1992
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1st published in Clarendon paperback 1995
Bibliography: p. [511]-531
Includes index
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ISBN 9780198120995
内容説明
This biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins, prepared with the benefit of Hopkins's private papers, sets out to present the poet's life in relation to his writings - both the finished poems and the wealth of notebooks, letters and drafts which he left. Unlike many previous biographical studies, which have sought a unified picture of the man via his belief as a Roman Catholic, this one sifts the evidence, and finds in Hopkins's life a succession of turmoils rather than a settled ideological position. Hopkins's powerful and original temperament, a strange mixture of innocence and expertise, of old prejudices and clear-sighted observations, constantly worked against his achieving happiness and success. Within the religious discipline he had chosen, his problems were sometimes crushed but never fully worked out, though much superb writing, both poetry and prose, were the result. The biography charts his literary development alongside the events of his life, his friendships with figures such as Robert Bridges, Digby Dolben, Coventry Patmore, and Canon Dixon, and the crises of his religious thought.
There are discussions of the poetry, often quoted in its earlier drafts to reveal the workings of Hopkins' creative mind.
目次
- Part 1 The boy (1844-1863): parents
- Stratford
- Hampstead
- Highgate. Part 2 The student (1863-1868): Balliol College
- friends
- Hopkins and Ruskin
- Digby Dolben
- religion and conversion to Roman Catholicism (influence of Newman)
- Bovey Tracey and Birmingham
- Switzerland. Part 3 The Jesuit (1868-1874): novitiate at Roehampton
- philosophate at St Mary's Hall
- Isle of Man
- teaching in London and Devon. Part 4 The poet (1874-1877): St Bueno's and Wales
- "The Wreck of the Deutschland" and poems of nature (including "Spring", "The Windhover", etc.). Part 5 Fortune's football (1877-1884): Mount St Mary's, Stonyhurst, Farm Street, Oxford (incl. "The Loss of the Eurydice", "Duns Scotus' Oxford", "Binsey Poplars", etc)
- Bedford Leigh, Liverpool, Glasgow (incl. "Spring and Fall", "Felix Randall")
- Roehampton tertianship, Stonyhurst - teaching classics
- Coventry Patmore. Part 6 The stranger (1884-1889): University College, Dublin - depression, "Spelt from Sybil's Leaves", "St Winefred's Well", the "terrible" sonnets
- Katherine Tynan
- "Harry Ploughman", "That Nature is Heraclitean Fire", "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord"
- illness and death. Part 7 Post Mortem: publication of his works by Bridges.
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: pbk ISBN 9780198183501
内容説明
`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 - though 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, which often militated against his chances of happiness and success, 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.
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