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In 1989, the centenary of his death, Gerard Manley Hopkins continues to provoke fundamental questions among scholars: what major poetic strategy informs his work and how did his reflections on the nature of poetry affect his writing? While form meant a great deal to Hopkins, it was never mere form. Maria Lichtmann demonstrates that the poet, a stud



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 3*CHAPTER 1: "Exquisite Artifice": Parallelism in Hopkins' Poetics, pg. 7*CHAPTER 2: "Meaning Motion": Parallelism in The Wreck of the Deutschland, Part the First, pg. 61*CHAPTER 3: "Thoughts Against Thoughts": Antithesis in Hopkins' Sonnets, pg. 100*CHAPTER 4: "The Ecstasy of Interest": Contemplation as Parallelism's Praxis, pg. 129*CHAPTER 5 : "And But the Beholder": Contemplation in Hopkins' Poetry, pg. 170*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 215*INDEX, pg. 225

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691602653, 978-0691602653
      ISBN10: 0691602654

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In 1989, the centenary of his death, Gerard Manley Hopkins continues to provoke fundamental questions among scholars: what major poetic strategy informs his work and how did his reflections on the nature of poetry affect his writing? While form meant a great deal to Hopkins, it was never mere form. Maria Lichtmann demonstrates that the poet, a stud



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 3*CHAPTER 1: "Exquisite Artifice": Parallelism in Hopkins' Poetics, pg. 7*CHAPTER 2: "Meaning Motion": Parallelism in The Wreck of the Deutschland, Part the First, pg. 61*CHAPTER 3: "Thoughts Against Thoughts": Antithesis in Hopkins' Sonnets, pg. 100*CHAPTER 4: "The Ecstasy of Interest": Contemplation as Parallelism's Praxis, pg. 129*CHAPTER 5 : "And But the Beholder": Contemplation in Hopkins' Poetry, pg. 170*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 215*INDEX, pg. 225

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