Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience

This nuanced yet accessible study is the first to examine the range of religious experience imagined in Hopkins' writing.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Forms of Devotion: 1. Bibles; 2. Prayer; Part II. Models of Faith: 3. The soldier; 4. The martyr; Part III. Last Things: 5. Death and judgement; 6. Heaven and hell.

About the author

Martin Dubois is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Summary

This nuanced yet accessible study is the first to examine the range of religious experience imagined in Hopkins' writing. By exploring the shifting way in which Hopkins imagines religious belief in individual history, Martin Dubois contests established views of his poetry as a unified project.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Dubois, Martin (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne) Dubois
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107180451
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18045-1
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets