Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics)
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Author: Gerard Manley HopkinsEditor: W. H. Gardner
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1953-12-30
ISBN: 0140420150
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: Pied Poetry
Summary: 5 Stars
Gerard Manley Hopkins is perhaps best known for three poems, all dealing with nature and the reverence due to God for what he has created. Not that one should expect less from a priest who renounced poetry (by burning almost all of his previous writings) when he entered the Society of Jesus and swore that he would never write again, unless his superiors agreed to it. (It is not difficult to see why Thomas Merton identified with Hopkins so much.) Hopkins was not appreciated in his lifetime since his poetry was published posthumously in 1918, and he has fallen by the wayside today, not readily recognized as a top poet. Yet Hopkins holds a unique place between the Victorian and Modern literary worlds that few others hold. The poems in this volume speak to his unique talent for language and rhythm and the sheer joy he took in delighting in the Lord's creation of the world around him.
A great number of Hopkins' poems center around the beauty of nature, with the poet praising God for what he has created. His best-known poems "Pied Beauty", "Spring and Fall", and "God's Grandeur" are testiments to this. Yet Hopkins was not afraid to explore the darker side of his nature, the doubts and fears he experienced even though he was a priest, through a poem like "Carrion Comfort" where the poet can find little to no heavenly solace for his trials and tribulations. Hopkins delighted in creating new words, compound words that compacted lines into neat poetic rhythm and played with the notions those words were meant to represent. He also relied heavily on sound, as evidenced by his reliance on alliteration and stressing words in unusual places. Hopkins' poems are meant to be read and enjoyed aloud.
Penguin Classics' "Poems and Prose" of Gerard Manley Hopkins is an excellent collection of the writer's work. Hopkins' poems are definitely not easy to read or necessarily to understand, as they can often be full of references to things a modern audience may no longer be familiar with. However, there is something downright magical in his use of rhythm and repetition that make his poems come to life and linger in the reader's mind long afterwards.
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