Gerard Hopkins

Electronic resources related to G.M. Hopkins (1844-89) and his poetry

The resources linked here reflect those discussed in the article. This page, however, will shortly be revised to take account of developments since the article was finalised in December 1996.

Texts of the Poems

• Hopkins, Gerard Manley. 1918. Poems. Bartleby Library e-text. Complete version of 1918 edition with illustrations. Excellent.

• Oxford Text Archive - holdings include text of English poems from 4th edition. Available on application.

• Selected Poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins - selection of 16 poems from Toronto

The Web Concordances

Critical Essays

• Hopkins' Aesthetic Theory - full text of critical essay by Marco Graziosi , Hopkins Quarterly, 1989

  from Nineteenth Century Literature:

  • Jennifer A. Wagner, ‘The Allegory of Form in Hopkins's Religious Sonnets’, NCL vol. 47 no.1 - abstract and complete article

  • Richard Isomaki, ‘Hopkins, Community, Functions: "Tom's Garland"', NCL vol. 47 no.4 - abstract and complete article

  • NCL's search engine

• Gerard Manley Hopkins's Journal and the Poetics of Natural History - short article by Mary Ellen Bellanca, University of Delaware

Books

• Gerard Manley Hopkins Annual - details from the publisher

• Hopkins Against History by Eugene Hollahan (Creighton University Press, 1995)

• A Commentary on the Complete Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Paul L. Mariani (Cornell University Press, 1970)

• The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham by Helen Vendler (Harvard University Press, 1995)

Book Reviews

from Nineteenth Century Literature:

• Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life by Robert Bernard Martin, reviewed by Paul Mariani. NCL vol. 48 no. 1

• Hopkins: a Literary Biography by Norman White, reviewed by Todd K. Bender. NCL vol. 49 no. 1.

• Double review by Jude V. Nixon of The Fine Delight that Fathers Thought: Rhetoric and Medievalism in Gerard Manley Hopkins by Franco Marucci; and The Random Grim Forge: A Study of Social Ideas in the Work of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Sjaak Zonneveld. NCL vol. 50 no. 3.

Library resources

• Gerard Manley Hopkins Collection - library holdings at Gonzaga. Description; also access to catalogue.

• The Papers of Claude Colleer Abbott at Durham - a brief description

• The Bodleian - main page

• Duke Humfrey - home of the Hopkins MSS: news of temporary closure

• Campion Hall - contact information

Teaching resources

• Gerard Manley Hopkins Overview - the Victorian Web. A range of introductory material.

  Including:

  • Brief biography
  • Chronology
  • Inscape
  • Sprung Rhythm
  • Tractarianism

Societies, conferences

• The Gerard Manley Hopkins Society Home Page - Monasterevan, Ireland

• Hopkins International Summer School - a more up-to-date version of the programme from Atlantic Island

Miscellaneous

• Hopkins in a medical humanities course - a curiosity?

• Hopkins, Gerard Manley : Felix Randal - More medical humanities...

• Company Online - a Hopkins page from the magazine of the American Jesuits

• The Cyber Jesuit Page

• Illuminating Lives: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Related writers and topics

• Robert Bridges - two poems

• Illuminating Lives: Cardinal Newman

• 19th Century Authors

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Last revised: 10 June 1997