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Gerard Manley Hopkins Archive 2005 - Index
The Gerard Manley Hopkins Archive 2005, a free ressource for students and enthusiasts for Hopkins poetry contains lectures on: The Idea of a University; Hopkins's Poetic Heritage: What Did He Leave for His Followers?; Hopkins and Milton; The Golden Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins; Hopkins's Influence on American College Students; Gerard and Gerontius: Hopkins and Newman; Hopkins's Ireland: Early Christian Monasteries
The Idea of a University
President John Hughes NUI University, Maynooth
Professor John G. Hughes is President of National University of Ireland, Maynooth and is Pro-Vice-Chancellor of The National University of Ireland. Professor Hughes has extensive international links in Europe, the US and Asia. He has initiated a large number of successful research collaborations with prestigious institutions including the Max-Planck Institutes, Carnegie-Mellon University, MIT and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Hopkins's Poetic Heritage: What Did He Leave for His Followers?
Joseph Feeney SJ St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia
Hopkins and Ursula Bethell
Peter Whiteford Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
If one returns to read some of the general literary criticism of the 1930's, one is struck, not just by the degree of enthusiastic attention that is given to Gerard Manley Hopkins, but paradoxically by the slight air of bewilderment that accompanies some of that enthusiasm. I am not thinking here of the bewilderment that was the response of many of the earliest reviewers and critics to Hopkins's perceived obscurity; rather, some critics seemed equally bemused by the very fact and scale of Hopkins's influence on poets writing after the First World War. F. R. Leavis, in his New Bearings in English Poetry (1932) was more than confident of the lasting importance and influence of Hopkins, but then Leavis was rarely troubled by any uncertainty about his own judgement.
Hopkins and American Modernist Poets
Michael J. DennisonCarlow University Pittsburgh, USA.
This lecture is about the influence of Gerard Manley Hopkins on American Modernist poets, and that will mean especially the second generation Modernists, poets writing their most significant work between 1930 and 1970. This is a vast subject, and in order to fit the allotted time I will only very briefly allude to those already treated in some detail by the existing scholarship, especially in the valuable Hopkins Among the Poets , Monograph Three in The International Hopkins Association Monograph Series, edited by Richard F. Giles, 1985, and in Desmond Egan's comprehensive study "Hopkins's Influence on Poetry," published in 1994 in Saving Beauty: Further Studies In Hopkins , edited by Allsopp and Downes.Read Dr. Dennison's on Hopkins and Modernist American Poets here
The Golden Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins'
Hannah Loach University of York, United Kingdom.
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Pre-Raphaelites
Miho Takahashi
Kansai University, Japan.
Gerard Manley Hopkins - An English Perspective
Joseph Sweeney London
United Kingdom
The Trail of Hopkins: His Influence on One Writer Today (Illustrated)
Margaret Smyth Writer, Seattle.
Thank you all for being here, at this conference, demonstrating that Gerard Manley Hopkins is alive and well in the hearts of people the whole world over. And thanks especially to those of you who, year after year, organize this remarkable Summer School, not out of a sense of duty or hope for great financial reward, but because you love to celebrate the life and creative genius of this man.
Read text of Margaret Smyth's Lecture here
God's Grandeur and 5 Composers (Illustrated)Lee Dunleavy
Oxford University.
The Nature of Hopkins:
Irene Kyffin United Kingdom
Hopkins's Influence on American College Students
Evelyn Wilson Tarrant County College, USA
Today, more so than during his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins speaks to the hearts and souls of nations to those who are willing to listen. My first introduction to Hopkins occurred when I was a sophomore undergraduate in a British literature course. Already a mother of three children, I found serious study time came during the hours of 9:00 P.M. and 1:00 A.M. or later. I discovered quickly that reading and interpreting Hopkins'ss poetry was not an activity that I could simply breeze through. I will, however, never forget that after numerous readings of Hopkins's work and trying to explicate his poems line by line and word for word, my analyses of them eventually brought an unexpected epiphany-an explosion of new thoughts, ideas, concepts, and a different view of the value and beauty of the simple things in nature that I had taken for granted.
Read more about Hopkins's Influence on American Students here
Gerard and Gerontius: Hopkins and Newman
Michael Woods United Kingdom.
It is clear that Dream and Vision link Hopkins and Newman. In the first place, they both saw clearly that the Church of England was not the true Church and accepted the authority of Rome. They shared a common vision, in the intellectual and theological senses of the word concerning what they wanted for Britain. Hopkins became very much part of Newman's vision for the education of Catholics, first for a brief spell in Edgbaston at the Birmingham Oratory and then in Ireland as Professor of Greek at the Catholic University. However, it is the link between the religious poetry of Newman and that of Hopkins that I wish to consider here; two souls on a common spiritual journey.
Read more about Gerard and Gerontius: Hopkins and Newman here
Hopkins's Ireland: Early Christian Monasteries
Sean Bagnall
It is important to point out that there were no towns, as such, in Ireland until the Vikings founded our main towns of Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Limerick and the many other river mouth or river crossing towns - all of which date from after the Viking invasion. While there may have been a fairly dense settlement near the mouth of the Liffey but it did not take on any of the characteristics of a town until the Vikings used the important river crossing point for their settlement.
Read Sean Bagnall's Hopkins's Ireland: Early Christian Monasteries
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