The world is charged with the grandeur of God. The opening line of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem, “God’s Grandeur,” says it all. It says all we need to know about the world in which we’re living. Every ...

IN at least four ways the correspondence of Gerard Hopkins (edited by Claude Colleer Abbott) forms a valuable contribution to English letters and biography. It elucidates the practice and the theory ...

BORN a century ago, Gerard Manley Hopkins is a ” Yea-Sayer" for our day. Yet general ignorance of him still prevails: I find one standard anthology of modern poetry dating his death 1898, and another ...

In celebration of Jewish Book Month, The Arty Semite is partnering with the Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA) and the Jewish Book Council to present “30 Days, 30 Texts,” a series of ...

Christianity and Literature, Vol. 65, No. 2 (March 2016), pp. 170-194 (25 pages) Abstract This article addresses how Hopkins's concept of inscape interacts with issues of perception in 19th-century ...

John J. Miller is joined by Holly Ordway to discuss the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. John J. Miller brings The Great Books podcast to a close. John J. Miller is joined by Peter Meilaender of ...

While Netflix or your podcast feed may be the way you consume spooky tales during the Halloween season, poetry has been making readers squirm out of their skin for centuries. But what if I told you ...

When the young English Jesuit novice Gerard Manley Hopkins submitted his poem The Wreck of the Deutschland to the Jesuit magazine The Month, the editors accepted the unusual thirty-five stanza piece, ...

The poet’s exquisite, strangely beautiful language and artful rhyme amplify his feelings of despair at losing a treasured and ...

Why did these five Franciscan sisters, the victims of Bismarck’s anti-Catholic persecution which had forced them into exile, have to die, apparently so senselessly? An illustration of the wreck of the ...

Different works of art convey feeling in different ways. Paint may be troweled or knifed onto the canvas in thick strokes or dribbled or splashed. In other works, the painter's strokes might be ...