The Gerard Manley Hopkins Archive consists of Lectures delivered at The Hopkins Festival held in Kildare since 1987. Lectures are gathered in a searchable archive, an indispensble resource for students and fans of Hopkins poetry worldwide. Each day, hundreds of visitors search this Archive, coming from all over the world, looking for the widest imaginable topics.

About 20 of these lectures were originally published in Studies, A Literary Review. We thank the Irish Jesuits for this support and in also, for their kind permission to include those lectures here in the Hopkins Archive.

Explore these links to lectures in the Gerard Manley Hopkins Archive. These lectures have been given at the Annual GM Hopkins Summer School which started in 1987.

Hopkins scholars from all over the world give a special global perspective to scholarship in this field.

2008 Lectures

Hopeful Hopkins: Desmond Egan

Quantum Electordynamic Interpretations of Gerard Manley Hopkins

John Henry Newman and Translation Angelo Bottone

Isadora Duncan Dance : The Soul Moving in Nature: Alice Bloch

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Magic Metaphor Maker Joseph J. Feeney, S.J. St. Joseph's, Philadelphia, USA

Dolben, Moral Masochism and the will to Resist in the Early Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins Ciarán O'Hare

The Introduction of Fancy into Hopkins' Poetics Kumiko Tanabe, Doshisha University, Japan

GM Hopkins and the County Kildare (Norman White, Ireland)

A Czech perspective on the poetry of GM Hopkins
(Ivana Bozdchova, Czech Republic)

Hopkins's Poetry - its reception in Germany (Ewe Boker, Germany)

Gerard Manley Hopkins's Final Words on Childbearing and Creativity
(Donna A. Badin, Italy)

Hopkins, Heraclitus and Heidegger - a French view (Joanny Moulin, France)

Hopkins compared to Italian poet, Eugenio Montale (Lara Farrini, Italy)

The theme of Resurrection in the poetry of Hokins (Brian Arkins, Ireland)

The place of Hopkins in Spanish scholarship; (Patrick Sheeran, Spain)

The Poetic of Detail; (H. Kenner, USA)

Hopkins's poetry compared with Chinese poetry; (Hu Yun Huan, China)

The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Thomas Hardy compared (Michael Cronin, USA)

Rope imagery in Hopkins poetry: (Kimiko Hotta, Japan)

Inscaping the heart: a study of Hopkins' poetry: (Aleksandra Kedzierska, Poland)

Is the poetry of Hopkins physical or metaphical: (Sakiko Takagi)

The experience of reading the poetry of GM Hopkins
(Frank Fennell, USA)

Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins: (K. Enozawa, Japan)

The challenge of translating Hokins's poetry into Italian (Giuseppe Serpillo)

Hopkins and Whitman: Mother Nature's Sons: (Tami Whitney, USA)

Gerard Manley Hopkins and Saint Augustine: James F. Cotter, USA)

The place of Contemplation in the world of Hopkins: (Maria Lichtman, USA)

Gerard Manley Hopkins and a Nun named Gertrude: ( G. F. Nisbet, USA)

Hopkins and Otherness - A View from Theology; (James Mackey, Scotland)

Appropriating Horace: (Brian Arkins, Ireland)

Mariology of G.M. Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland:
(Aleksandra Kedzierska, Poland)

Self as other in Hopkins: (Peter Milward, S.J., USA)

Julien Green - reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - the Mirror Effect
Michael O'Dwyer, Ireland

A priesthood of the pen: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Jean Sulivan
(Eamon Maher, Ireland)

Hopkins and the Unrevealed Christ: towards a Catholic Aesthetics

GM Hopkins:His influence on John Berryman

Gerard Manley Hopkins: a legacy to the twentieth century

Hopkins's Breviary Poems (Gerry Murray, Chicago)

I Do Otherwise: Hopkins' Patterns of Creativity (Joseph Feeney S.J.)

Towards a Poetics of Transcendence after Darwin (Cary Plotkin)

'The Sea Took Pity' Hopkins No. 173 (R. S. Kilpatrick)

Hopkins's European Mentors: Exploratory Observations: (Michael Allsopp

Feminist Possibilities in Hopkins's Poetry (Lesley Higgins)

Hopkins and Gurney again (Mark W. Brown, USA)

Hopkins: a Japanese Perspective: (K. Enozawa, Japan )

Hopkins Discover: Four Unknown Autograph Letters (Joseph Feeney, S.J. USA)

Poetry and Nationalism at the Margins: (Shymal Bagchee, USA)

HOPKINS: Poetry and Philosophy (Gerard Casey, Ireland)

Ruskin: Hopkins' "silent don" (P. Bollinger, USA)

Simile and its Metamorphoses in G.M.Hopkins (Giuseppe Serpillo, Sardinia)

At a Third Remove: Gerard Manley Hopkins and St Patrick: (Ernesto Ferlita, S.J. USA)

Style in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Brian Arkins, Ireland)

Hopkins and Monasterevin in County Kildare (Norman White, Ireland)

The self as other in Hopkins (Peter Milward SJ, Japan)

Himself he Speaks and Spells (Hugh Kenner, USA)

Gerard Manley Hopkins and Walker Percy as Language Theorists: (Patrick Samway, S.J. USA)

How did Hopkins pray? (Joseph Feeney, S.J. USA)

Literature and Spirituality: (Michael O'Dwyer, Ireland)

Flannery O'Connor, Hopkins and Silence: (Hank T. Edmondson 111, USA)

G.M.Hopkins and Hart Crane (Chantal Bizzini, France)

Levelling with God: (Rusell E. Murphy, USA)

Parallels between Jean Sulivan and G.M. Hopkins (Eamon Maher, Ireland)

GM Hopkins and Norwid (Aleksandra Kedzierska, Poland)

Gerard Manley Hopkins and Louis MacNeice: (William Adamson, Germany)

Gerard Manley Hopkins and Oscar Wilde - Victorian Writers
(Leonara Rita Obed, USA)

Gerard Manley Hopkins - Images of Transcendence (Evelyn M. Wilson, USA)

Hopkins's Climb to Transcendence (James McGonigal, Scotland).

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