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The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins
Contributor(s): Westover, Daniel (Author), Wright, William (Author)
ISBN: 1942954204     ISBN-13: 9781942954200
Publisher: Clemson University Press
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Religion
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 164 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
The discovery of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry in the twentieth century was a revelation for postwar poets, who discovered in both Hopkins's style and subject matter a voice seemingly bottled for their own time. This influence has not faded in the twenty-first century; in fact, it has grown
all the more pervasive as poets from many backgrounds and nations have found, in the voice of this nineteenth-century Jesuit, a revolutionary way of addressing contemporary concerns relating to human imagination, ecology, green ethics, the role of art, and individual spirituality. The poets
collected in The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins engage with Hopkins in diverse ways. Some mention Hopkins or address some aspect of his life. Others channel his innovative poetics or address important Hopkinsian themes. All demonstrate the centrality of his influence
in contemporary poetry. Unfortunately, critics have mostly neglected the importance of Hopkins as a contemporary model, instead pinning his influence to the early twentieth century. In a climate where high modernism, Whitmanic free verse, and the confessional lyric are often held up as contemporary
poetry's dominant forerunners, this book proposes a more complex genealogy, tracing back to Hopkins and his influential early admirers current strands of emotional and spiritual openness, pleasure in word play and sonic textures, and veneration of the dynamic material world. \