Hopkins variations : standing round a waterfall / Joaquin Kuhn and Joseph J. Feeney, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kuhn, Joaquin.

Feeney, Joseph J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889--Criticism and interpretation.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889--Appreciation.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxi, 315 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Saint Joseph's University Press ; New York : Fordham University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Warm, personal, multi faceted, this book offers fifty-five views of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Written by poets, actors, translators, scholars, graduate students, a composer, a novelist, an artist, a theologian, and a philosopher, these essays capture the diverse enthusiasms of three generations of readers from thirteen countries in Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia.

In these pages Hopkins is a healer, wordlover, birdlover, musician, truthteller, poetic influence creative theologian, naturalist, dream-figure, friend, religious teacher, Jesuit, dialogist with the Jewish midrash -- even a swimmer, a carousel-rider, a teacher of feminism, and a hope for communism-laden Poles.

In a rush of reader-responses, fifty-five women and men play rousing variations on the sounds and themes of a world-beloved poet.

Contents:

Matching Creativities

"Incertus" as GMH as Seamus Heaney / Seamus Heaney 3

"By the Gate of the Sacred" / Robert F. McGovern 5

Hopkins and I / Ron Hansen 9

Afterthoughts: GMH / Ned Rorem 12

Hopkins and I / Desmond Egan 13

Physical Matters

Following Hopkins / Lesley Higgins 23

A Hopkins Apprenticeship / Catherine Phillips 29

Hopkins and Me / R.K.R.^Thornton 33

The Incessant Calls from Hopkins: From a Tributary, a Winding Stream to the Main Current / Tomiko Hirata, S.P.C. 36

Why Hopkins Matters to Me / Lionel Adey 43

Hopkins Made Me / Kunio Shimane 47

Stumbling on Hopkins / Cary Plotkin 51

Why Hopkins Matters to Me / Sjaak Zonneveld 53

Physical Responses

For the Sake of Selving / Sean Davidson 59

How Did I Come to Gerard Manley Hopkins? / Bruno Gaurier 62

Hopkins and Me: How and Why / Norman White 66

"These things were there" / Margaret Johnson 69

Birds, Nests and Aerial Spaces, or: Why Hopkins Matters to Me / Eynel Wardi 72

Swimming and Diving with Hopkins / Joseph J. Feeney, S.J. 80

An Ascot for Astronauts: Riding the Eternal Carousel with Gerard Manley Hopkins / Leonora Rita V. Obed 84

Intellectual Responses

G.M. Hopkins, the Transparency of Language and Modernist Word-Skepticism / Uwe Boker 95

Hopkins in My Life and Work / Alan Heuser 102

A Poet Who Came to Brood and Sit / Renzo D'Agnillo 108

Master of Inscapes as Matrix of Invention / Joaquin Kuhn 111

My Encounters with Hopkins / Brian Arkins 122

Hopkins' Articulate Self / Walter J. Ong, S.J. 125

Why Hopkins Matters / Michael Moore 130

Pilgrimage to a Text

A Tale of Five Continents / Norman H. MacKenzie 137

Dramatizing the Text

My Beautiful Persian Carpet / Peter Gale 173

Brass-bold: An Actor and G.M. Hopkins / Nick Weber 177

Hopkins Gladly Performed / Ernest J. Ferlita, S.J. 181

How I Became a Hopkins Performer / Richard Austin 185

Personal Responses

Hopkins and His Canonical Preservation / Alison G. Sulloway 189

A Poet Who Resurrects Comfort / Jeffrey B. Loomis 192

A Vigorous Discipline / Jerome Bump 196

What Hopkins Means to Me / Maria Lichtmann 200

How I Came, by Others' Wisdom and Kindness, to Be a (Novice) Hopkins Scholar / Michael E. Allsopp 204

"Striding high there": Hopkins' Poetic Achievements / Mariaconcetta Costantini 208

Hopkins and God's Grandeur / Ewa Borkowska 212

Birth of a Brain: Finding Hopkins Finding Self / Jude V. Nixon 216

Hopkins as Lifeline / Paul Mariani 222

Godly Responses

Hopkins, Sacrifice and God / John McDade, S.J. 233

Reading Hopkins: A Dialogue between Two Traditions / Rachel Salmon 237

Why Does Hopkins' Poetry Mean So Much to the Japanese? / Kazuyoshi Enozawa 246

Reading Hopkins / James Finn Cotter 251

A Memoir about Hopkins / Donald Walhout 254

Why Hopkins Matters to Me / John Ferns 258

Praying with Hopkins / Francis X. McAloon, S.J. 262

Drawn in by Hopkins

My Hopkins Apprenticeship / Franco Marucci 269

Why Hopkins and Me? / David Anthony Downes 272

Coming to Hopkins / Gerald Roberts 278

Hopkins and I / Peter Milward, S.J. 282

Postmodern Indeterminacy and the Search for Meaning: Why Hopkins Matters to Me / Howard W. Fulweiler 286

Hopkins' Poetry: I Cannot Choose but Hear / Francis L. Fennell 290

Catching Up with Hopkins / Tom Zaniello 295.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0916101398

OCLC:

49388985