The philosophical mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The philosophical mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
（Nineteenth century series）
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
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Bibliography: p. [169]-176
Includes index
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Through the lens of Hopkins's 'masterwork', The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins readdresses Hopkins's frequently overlooked mysticism as an interior narrative within his corpus. Drawing on a range of religious, literary and visual traditions from Augustine's Confessions to the seventeenth-century spiritual emblem, this book demonstrates the ways in which the Wreck deliberately constructs and conceals a mystical and contemplative narrative. Typology and allegory are some of the important hermeneutic tools used in this re-reading of Hopkins, relating the poet to the discursive tradition surrounding the Old Testament Song of Songs, the philosophical theology of the Greek Fathers, and, perhaps most intriguingly, the meditative and visual tradition of the baroque heart-emblem. On the centenary of the publication of Hopkins's poems, this book places the writer firmly within a mystical tradition, necessitating a fundamental reconsideration of the legacy of this major Victorian poet.
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Acknowledgments
"Rare-Dear Gerard": Hopkins and the Early Fathers
Divine Labour: Contemplation, Energeia, Stress
Tractarian Mysticism and Indwelling Grace
Baptism and Ascent: Created Corruptible, Raised Incorruptible
Sacramental Typology and Second Nature
Origen and the Song of Songs
The Visible and Invisible in Augustine's Confessions
Emblems of the Heart
Love, Spirit, Breath, Fire
The Paradise Within
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