| The Fire That Breaks: Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poetic Legacies Contributor(s): Westover, Daniel (Editor), Holmes, Thomas Alan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1942954360 ISBN-13: 9781942954361 Publisher: Clemson University Press W/ Lup OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 821.009 |
| LCCN: 2019946945 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.55 lbs) 354 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The discovery of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry in the twentieth century was a revelation for post-war poets, who discovered 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. 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. |