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Daniel Westover is author of R. S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography (University of Wales Press, 2011) and co-editor of The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins (Clemson University Press, 2016). Daniel earned an MFA from McNeese State University and a PhD from the University of Wales, Bangor. He lives in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he is Associate Professor of English at East Tennessee State University. Thomas Alan Holmes, a professor of English at East Tennessee State University, specializes in Appalachian and Southern literature. He is co-editor of Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture (Lexington Books) and Jeff Daniel Marion: Poet on the Holston (University of Tennessee Press). His research and creative work have appeared in such journals as Louisiana Literature, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Connecticut Review, Appalachian Heritage, Blue Mesa Review, and Appalachian Journal.

'A perennial problem in Hopkins scholarship is that the seemingly unending process of explicating his highly idiosyncratic oeuvre has prevented a serious consideration of the formal and thematic continuities between his writings and those of his contemporaries and successors... Consequently, this collection makes a very welcome contribution to the scholarly conversation.'A. J. Nickerson, Review 19

• Acknowledgments Introduction: “Rash-Fresh, Re-Winded, New-Skein®®d Score”: The Enduring Newness of Gerard Manley Hopkins Daniel Westover 1 “Admire and Do Otherwise”: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Ivor Gurney R. K. R. Thornton 2 “Such a Mix of Beauty and Horror”: Two Modes of Modernist Response to Hopkins Lesley Higgins 3 Action and Repose: Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Influence in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop Ben Howard 4 The One Sane Milkman, I Fear: The Complex, Abiding Influence of Father Hopkins on John Berryman Paul Mariani 5 Seamus Heaney’s Hopkins Richard Rankin Russell 6 Gerard Manley Hopkins and Geoffrey Hill: A Compound Ghost Catherine Phillips 7 “A Billion Times Told Lovelier”: Reclaiming Hopkins’s Theological Legacy through Geoffrey Hill’s Kenotic Lens Devon Abts 8 “Strange Elation” and a Strange Relation: Gerard Hopkins and Caribbean Poetry Emily Taylor Merriman 9 “Hack and Rack the Growing Green”: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ecotheology, and the Poetry of Denise Levertov, Pattiann Rogers, and Martha Silano Lynn Domina 10 “Before the Word and World became Separate”: Hopkins and Charles Wright’s Contemplative Verse Joe Moffett 11 “A Mix of Mineral and Grease”: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Contemporary Appalachian Poetry Thomas Alan Holmes 12 Hansen’s Hopkins: The Poet as Postmodern Exile Adrian Grafe 13 An Afterword to My Visit Joseph J. Feeney, SJ Notes Contributors Index