Ignation Personality of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Inbunden, Engelska, 1990

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Provides a careful and comprehensive reading of Hopkins' poetry, early and late, from the vantage point of the methods, discipline and theological insights of the Ignatian spirit of The Spiritual Exercises. Using Hopkins' own projected commentary and other spiritual notes, the author offers a reading of Hopkins' poetry highlighting the themes of Ignatian spirituality and analyzing parallel structures between the Ignatian meditation and Hopkins' sonnets. Contents: Elected Silence: Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889; Ignatius and Hopkins; Ignatius and the Wreck; The Ignatian Spirit of the Priest-Poet; The Desolate Self of the Terrible Sonnets; Hopkins and the Meditative Tradition; Postscript; Postscript II: The Psychology of Ignatian Election: "The Selfless Self of Self."

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Utgivningsdatum:1990-02-16
Mått:153 x 219 x 19 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:234
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780819176646

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David Anthony Downes is Professor of English at California State University in Chico, California.

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This is a valuable book...Downes argues throughout on solidly intellectual and Hopkinsean grounds... -- David J. Leigh, S.J., Seattle University The Heythrop Journal The most comprehensive and illuminating reading of the Ignatian sensibility in Gerard Manley Hopkins. Downes' new edition engages the most recent scholarship on Hopkins' spirituality, conducts a lively and fruitful dialogue with it, and demonstrates where Ignatian meditation shaped Hopkins' person, poetry, and poetics. -- Jude V. Nixon, Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, TX The Heythrop Journal Whatever poem Downes examines, he illuminates it brilliantly. His writing is lucid without being simplistic, his analyses are scholarly without being pedantic. The first edition of this book has withstood the passage of time superbly; the new edition gives us a Hopkins for the 1990s and beyond. -- Eugene R. August, University of Dayton The Heythrop Journal ...welcome addition amid the plethora of...studies of Hopkins. -- David J. Leigh, S.J., Seattle University ...welcome addition amid the plethora of...studies of Hopkins. -- David J. Leigh, S.J., Seattle University This is a valuable book...Downes argues throughout on solidly intellectual and Hopkinsean grounds... -- David J. Leigh, S.J., Seattle University The Heythrop Journal The most comprehensive and illuminating reading of the Ignatian sensibility in Gerard Manley Hopkins. Downes' new edition engages the most recent scholarship on Hopkins' spirituality, conducts a lively and fruitful dialogue with it, and demonstrates where Ignatian meditation shaped Hopkins' person, poetry, and poetics. -- Jude V. Nixon, Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, TX The Heythrop Journal Whatever poem Downes examines, he illuminates it brilliantly. His writing is lucid without being simplistic, his analyses are scholarly without being pedantic. The first edition of this book has withstood the passage of time superbly; the new edition gives us a Hopkins for the 1990s and beyond. -- Eugene R. August, University of Dayton The Heythrop Journal