TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bender,Todd K.
ED  - Project Muse.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work 
SN  - 9781421429946
AV  - PR4803.H44 Z58 
U1  - 828.809 
KW  - Hopkins, Gerard Manley,
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Classical influences
KW  - Catholics
KW  - England
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Classicism
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Christian poetry, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
KW  - Electronic books.
N1  - The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; Includes bibliographical references; The critical response to the first and second editions of the poems -- The publication of the prose and a note on the unpublished notebooks -- The non-logical structure of "the wreck of the Deutschland": Hopkins and Pindar -- Non-logical syntax: Latin and Greek hyperbaton -- Metaphysical imagery and explosive meaning: Crashow, Hopkins, and Martial; Open Access
N2  - In his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins was known as a poet only by a small circle of his friends. More than any other major Victorian writer, he was recovered and presented as a poet to modern readers by editors and scholars of the first half of the twentieth century. This book analyzes how and to what extent the presuppositions of these critics have dictated the modern conception of Hopkins's work. Bender seeks to dispel, once and for all, the notion that Hopkins was a naïf poet. He provides an analysis of classical Greek and Latin rhetoric relative to the classical background of Hopkins's style and the structure in his poetry. He maintains that especially in Hopkins's more extreme work, such as "The Wreck of the Deutschland," there are precedents for the structure of the poem itself, the structure of the sentences within the poem, and its sensual and obscure imagery in the classical literature that Hopkins knew so well. Bender's study suggests two highly controversial positons: first, that although Hopkins is one of the most original voices in English, his poetry is within a tradition insufficiently recognized by modern critics; and second, that the effect of careful and sympathetic study of classical literature can induce quite the opposite of a neoclassical style in English
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67088/
ER  -