The Hopkins Quarterly

An international journal of critical, scholarly, and appreciative responses to the lives and works of Gerard M. Hopkins, S.J., and his circle.

[Seán Mac Erlaine @SeanMacErlaine]

Tonight you can hear the radio piece I made about the last works and last months of poet G.M. Hopkins with Dylan Tighe on RTÉ Drama On One at 8:20pm. The photo is a still from the promenade piece with Will O'Connell. @rteradio1 @MoLI_Museum

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Congratulations to HM King Charles III on his accession to the throne of the UK — seen here in Rome with co-editor of The Hopkins Quarterly, Prof Michael D. Hurley, on the occasion of the canonisation of Cardinal John Henry Newman

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Live-streamed lecture on Hopkins: 4pm (BST), Sunday 8th May

[Jo Siedlecka @indcatholicnews]

London: Talk on Gerard Manley Hopkins https://t.co/XDr4nQDf0B via @icn_uk

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Live-streamed lecture on Hopkins: 4pm (BST), Sunday 8th May

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@gibson807 @bricksilk Christianity is a religion of hope, no more so than at Easter. On your 2nd point, there is a long & strong theological tradition explicitly linking stewardship of the world with a love for God who created it. Read Hopkins. Read the Pope’s 2015 Laudato Si: https://t.co/6E6GYZBfrP

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A brilliantly thoughtful and moving reading that captures Hopkins’ own explicit directions for the recitation of this poem: “To be read...slowly, strongly marking the rhythms and fetching out the syllables.”

[BBC Radio 4 Today @BBCr4today]

Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, reads Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, God's Grandeur, in a special Easter message

His reading will feature in a virtual service in @Stonyhurst Easter Meditation Sunday 4 April at 9am

#R4Today | @clarencehouse | https://t.co/x5TPW290Of

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@ClarenceHouse @Stonyhurst A brilliantly thoughtful and moving reading that captures Hopkins’ own explicit directions for the recitation of this poem: “To be read...slowly, strongly marking the rhythms and fetching out the syllables.”

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Wishing you a very happy Easter Sunday 🐣🌼

In support for Christians around the world, The Prince has contributed to this year’s Easter Meditation at @Stonyhurst College in Lancashire. His Royal Highness reads ‘God’s Grandeur’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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@mdhcambridge, @rebekahannlamb, and Dr Jan Graffius @StonyArchivum discuss Hopkins’ poem “God’s Grandeur” — the podcast explores Hopkins’ life and verse, and the inspiration he drew from experiences @Stonyhurst

https://t.co/9vw2MVygYU

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@mdhcambridge, @rebekahannlamb, and Dr Jan Graffius @StonyArchivum discuss Hopkins’ poem “God’s Grandeur” — the podcast explores Hopkins�� life and verse, and the inspiration he drew from experiences @Stonyhurst

https://t.co/9vw2MVygYU

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Co-editor of The Hopkins Quarterly, @mdhcambridge, discusses the interplay between Hopkins’ verse style and his religious faith in wide-ranging interview on “Faith and Imagination” for the @byuhumcenter podcast:

https://t.co/GeWHG6vTlP

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Wonderful birthday news! The Hopkins Quarterly is delighted by this sponsorship, which is an exciting development in @Stonyhurst’s support for scholarship on one of its most illustrious literary figures. Read more here: https://t.co/5pbGsRfPbB

[Religion&Literature @ReligionandLit]

Happy birthday to essayist and poet Hillaire Belloc, b. 1870, who wrote, "When I am dead, I hope it may be said: / His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."

[Christian Heritage Centre @CHCStonyhurst]

Today is the anniversary of the death of Fr. Gerald Manley Hopkins in 1889. Read his poem, Heaven-Haven, in the second picture below.

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Hopkins’ letters/diaries are likewise thick with appreciation for art’s transformative power — eg describing how Wordsworth’s Intimations of Immortality sent a “shock” through “the English speaking world”; and how, ever since reading the ode himself, he had been in a “tremble”.

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Here is a “clean” text of the poem, with brief study guide: https://t.co/Ru3Zad2Wu5

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#OTD in 1877 @Beunos Hopkins composed “The Windhover” — later calling it “the best thing I ever wrote” (letter to Bridges, 22 June 1879)

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It is fascinating to track something of his inspired process of composition, through the earlier drafts