RESOURCES
1 HOPKINS SOCIETY RESOURCES (these are extensive - please see below)
see also The USA based "Official" Hopkins US based website: http://www.hopkinspoetry.com (authorised and sponsored by the International Hopkins Society based in the Loyola University of Chicago - which has a large collection of photos and audio/videos of rendition of Hopkins poems as well as a section of the poems themselves and study guides and guides to the terminology Hopkins used)
1.1 HOPKINS SOCIETY JOURNAL GUIDANCE FOR CONTRIBUTORS
These are downloadable here:
hopsocj_guidance_for_contributors__3_.docx
1.2 DRAMATISED VERSION OF "THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND"
The "Wreck of the Deutschland" is Hopkins' longest and most famous poem annotated and arranged for reading aloud by several voices. It is a study resource aimed at individuals or groups. The reading aloud is only an option for groups who want to hear or study the poem together. The booklet also offers footnotes to explain each difficult word or phrase, and a short summary of each stanza to help readers follow the general drift.
Available as a 20-page A5 booklet, or in larger print in A4. Please indicate which size you would like. …. price £5.00 for either version individually plus £2 p and p. (£6 p and p overseas)- for multiple copies please add 15% extra p and p - obtainable from m.burgess154@btinternet.com to whom queries over p and p can be directed.
1.3 PAST UK HOPKINS SOCIETY LECTURES
These are listed below - they are £5.00 per copy plus £2.00 postage. (£6 p and p overseas)- for multiple copies please add 15% extra p and p - obtainable from m.burgess154@btinternet.com to whom queries regarding p and p can be directed.
Catherine Phillips "Bushy Bowered Wood" (1993)
Fr Paul Edwards SJ "The Deutschland and the Wonderland" (1996)
Gladys Mary Coles "At Beauty Aghast: Hopkins and his true Arcadia" (1999)
Peter Roberts "A Lovely Art" (2000)
Michael Alexander " Catholicism romantically revived - Hopkins and Medievalism" (2001)
Kate Glover "The Roll, the Rise,, the Carol, the Creation - Hopkins in Performance" (2002)
David Scott "Hopkins since the 6th Form"
Rowan Williams "The Self in Poetry" (2005)
Nicholas Sagovsky "The Self as Theologian" (2014)
Lesley Higgins "Examining Hopkins Private texts" (2015)
Lesley Higgins "Kind Sweet, Earnest Hopkins" (2017)
Lance Pierson "Hopkins and Milton" (2018)
1.4 THE HOPKINS SOCIETY JOURNAL no 40 2020
published by The Hopkins Press - free to members. Otherwise £5.00 per copy plus £2 postage and packing (£6 p and p overseas) - for multiple copies please add 15% extra p and p - obtainable from m.burgess154@btinternet.com to whom queries over p and p can be directed …..
Includes:
- " Letter from the President" by Michael Burgess
- 'The Great Exhibitioner of 1863" by Lance Pierson - How Hopkins' Oxford education was funded: the fun and games of historical research ......
- 'Esse Quam Videri: A footnote to a footnote" by Lance Pierson - Another tailpiece to the publication of GMH's undergraduate letters discovered at Highgate School .... a discussion of the background research into the family crest and the motto which Hopkins attached to the crest from boyhood ....
- "Hopkins in Rochdale ... and Todmorden" by Dudley Harrop - Dudley lives in Hale near Bowden and in the 2019 journal he outlines his excitement at finding that Hopkins visited his Balliol friend, Edmund Geldart in Bowden in 1865 ..... he follows this by tracing Hopkins subsequent visit north to Rochdale, "the happiest fortnight of his life" .... while there he reports back to his parents that he was converting to Catholicism but also that he had taken Anglican communion at Todmorden......
- "The Orient and Immortal Wheat - Shining like Shook Foil: Thomas Traherne and Gerard Manley Hopkins" by Jill Robson .... Jill is a member of both the Hopkins and Traherne Societies and in 2019 the Hopkins Society held a weekend meeting at Belmont Abbey on the outskirts of Hereford. Jill compares their childhoods and education and discusses their poetic works in the context of their priesthoods and Christianity ......
- "Hopkins the Salesman, "The Windhover" and "AND" by Kelsey Thornton - Kelsey believes that Hopkins is using the Windhover poem to share his glorying in the kestrel, and that the kestrel is his perception of God ... in effect he is selling the wonder of God in the poem and that he uses the word "and" in capitals as "AND" in the second verse as a technique to link his wonder at nature in the form of the kestrel and its wonderful movements with the wonder of God who preceded all nature and whose wonder is manifest in nature ....
"Peanuts from Liverpool" by Kelsey Thornton - Kelsey offers us small details or "peanuts" to delight us from Hopkins time as a parish priest in Liverpool 1879 - 81 .....
- "Poetic Pimpernel" by Kate Glover - snippets of interest over the year in Hopkins circles .....
- "Book Review" by Jill Robson - reviewing "Francis - A Life in Songs" by Ann Wroe - a biography of St Francis in songs ...... a book structured in sections, excellent for meditative reading - each starting with a short quotation from the earliest sources of St Francis' life, then a poem reflecting on it, followed by another poem set in modern life which picks up some theme or incident from Francis's story .....
2. OTHER RESOURCES - linked to Hopkins Society members
2.1 HOPKINS IN YOUR OWN WORDS: A VALUABLE EXERCISE
see ....
in_your_own_words_lance_p..pdf
2.2 GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS PODCAST
32 of his poems introduced and read by actor Lance Pierson
Available as separate tracks to hear or download online
The Poems are:
The Wreck of the Deutschland
Penmaen Pool
God’s Grandeur
Spring
In the Valley of the Elwy
The Windhover
Pied Beauty
Hurrahing in Harvest
Lantern out of Doors
The Loss of the Eurydice (extract)
The May Magnificat
Binsey Poplars
Henry Purcell
Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice
Peace
Felix Randal
Spring and Fall
Inversnaid
‘As kingfishers catch fire’
Ribblesdale
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
St Winefred’s Well (extracts)
Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves
‘Carrion Comfort’
‘No worst, there is none’
‘To seem the stranger lies my lot’
‘I wake and feel the fell of dark’
‘My own heart let me more have pity on’
Epithalamion
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
‘Thou are indeed just, Lord’
To R.B.
The podcast can be found in any podcast app. It's called "Poetry: The poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins." But searching either GMH or Lance Pierson should find it.
It can be found in a web browser here: https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/106114
These recordings were first presented on two CDs, which are still available (£5 each plus P+P) from: LPP Recordings, 48 Peterborough Road, London SW6 3EB – 020-7731 6544).
2.3 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
General Editors: Lesley Higgins and Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
VOLUMES I AND II : Correspondence
Edited by R.K.R. Thornton and Catherine Phillips
- Complete and freshly re-edited from the original manuscripts
- Presented in chronological order with all letters to Hopkins included
in the sequence
- Hopkins's alterations and corrections are included, illuminating the
movement of the writer's mind
1 HOPKINS SOCIETY RESOURCES (these are extensive - please see below)
see also The USA based "Official" Hopkins US based website: http://www.hopkinspoetry.com (authorised and sponsored by the International Hopkins Society based in the Loyola University of Chicago - which has a large collection of photos and audio/videos of rendition of Hopkins poems as well as a section of the poems themselves and study guides and guides to the terminology Hopkins used)
1.1 HOPKINS SOCIETY JOURNAL GUIDANCE FOR CONTRIBUTORS
These are downloadable here:
hopsocj_guidance_for_contributors__3_.docx
1.2 DRAMATISED VERSION OF "THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND"
The "Wreck of the Deutschland" is Hopkins' longest and most famous poem annotated and arranged for reading aloud by several voices. It is a study resource aimed at individuals or groups. The reading aloud is only an option for groups who want to hear or study the poem together. The booklet also offers footnotes to explain each difficult word or phrase, and a short summary of each stanza to help readers follow the general drift.
Available as a 20-page A5 booklet, or in larger print in A4. Please indicate which size you would like. …. price £5.00 for either version individually plus £2 p and p. (£6 p and p overseas)- for multiple copies please add 15% extra p and p - obtainable from m.burgess154@btinternet.com to whom queries over p and p can be directed.
1.3 PAST UK HOPKINS SOCIETY LECTURES
These are listed below - they are £5.00 per copy plus £2.00 postage. (£6 p and p overseas)- for multiple copies please add 15% extra p and p - obtainable from m.burgess154@btinternet.com to whom queries regarding p and p can be directed.
Catherine Phillips "Bushy Bowered Wood" (1993)
Fr Paul Edwards SJ "The Deutschland and the Wonderland" (1996)
Gladys Mary Coles "At Beauty Aghast: Hopkins and his true Arcadia" (1999)
Peter Roberts "A Lovely Art" (2000)
Michael Alexander " Catholicism romantically revived - Hopkins and Medievalism" (2001)
Kate Glover "The Roll, the Rise,, the Carol, the Creation - Hopkins in Performance" (2002)
David Scott "Hopkins since the 6th Form"
Rowan Williams "The Self in Poetry" (2005)
Nicholas Sagovsky "The Self as Theologian" (2014)
Lesley Higgins "Examining Hopkins Private texts" (2015)
Lesley Higgins "Kind Sweet, Earnest Hopkins" (2017)
Lance Pierson "Hopkins and Milton" (2018)
1.4 THE HOPKINS SOCIETY JOURNAL no 40 2020
published by The Hopkins Press - free to members. Otherwise £5.00 per copy plus £2 postage and packing (£6 p and p overseas) - for multiple copies please add 15% extra p and p - obtainable from m.burgess154@btinternet.com to whom queries over p and p can be directed …..
Includes:
- " Letter from the President" by Michael Burgess
- 'The Great Exhibitioner of 1863" by Lance Pierson - How Hopkins' Oxford education was funded: the fun and games of historical research ......
- 'Esse Quam Videri: A footnote to a footnote" by Lance Pierson - Another tailpiece to the publication of GMH's undergraduate letters discovered at Highgate School .... a discussion of the background research into the family crest and the motto which Hopkins attached to the crest from boyhood ....
- "Hopkins in Rochdale ... and Todmorden" by Dudley Harrop - Dudley lives in Hale near Bowden and in the 2019 journal he outlines his excitement at finding that Hopkins visited his Balliol friend, Edmund Geldart in Bowden in 1865 ..... he follows this by tracing Hopkins subsequent visit north to Rochdale, "the happiest fortnight of his life" .... while there he reports back to his parents that he was converting to Catholicism but also that he had taken Anglican communion at Todmorden......
- "The Orient and Immortal Wheat - Shining like Shook Foil: Thomas Traherne and Gerard Manley Hopkins" by Jill Robson .... Jill is a member of both the Hopkins and Traherne Societies and in 2019 the Hopkins Society held a weekend meeting at Belmont Abbey on the outskirts of Hereford. Jill compares their childhoods and education and discusses their poetic works in the context of their priesthoods and Christianity ......
- "Hopkins the Salesman, "The Windhover" and "AND" by Kelsey Thornton - Kelsey believes that Hopkins is using the Windhover poem to share his glorying in the kestrel, and that the kestrel is his perception of God ... in effect he is selling the wonder of God in the poem and that he uses the word "and" in capitals as "AND" in the second verse as a technique to link his wonder at nature in the form of the kestrel and its wonderful movements with the wonder of God who preceded all nature and whose wonder is manifest in nature ....
"Peanuts from Liverpool" by Kelsey Thornton - Kelsey offers us small details or "peanuts" to delight us from Hopkins time as a parish priest in Liverpool 1879 - 81 .....
- "Poetic Pimpernel" by Kate Glover - snippets of interest over the year in Hopkins circles .....
- "Book Review" by Jill Robson - reviewing "Francis - A Life in Songs" by Ann Wroe - a biography of St Francis in songs ...... a book structured in sections, excellent for meditative reading - each starting with a short quotation from the earliest sources of St Francis' life, then a poem reflecting on it, followed by another poem set in modern life which picks up some theme or incident from Francis's story .....
2. OTHER RESOURCES - linked to Hopkins Society members
2.1 HOPKINS IN YOUR OWN WORDS: A VALUABLE EXERCISE
see ....
in_your_own_words_lance_p..pdf
2.2 GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS PODCAST
32 of his poems introduced and read by actor Lance Pierson
Available as separate tracks to hear or download online
The Poems are:
The Wreck of the Deutschland
Penmaen Pool
God’s Grandeur
Spring
In the Valley of the Elwy
The Windhover
Pied Beauty
Hurrahing in Harvest
Lantern out of Doors
The Loss of the Eurydice (extract)
The May Magnificat
Binsey Poplars
Henry Purcell
Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice
Peace
Felix Randal
Spring and Fall
Inversnaid
‘As kingfishers catch fire’
Ribblesdale
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
St Winefred’s Well (extracts)
Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves
‘Carrion Comfort’
‘No worst, there is none’
‘To seem the stranger lies my lot’
‘I wake and feel the fell of dark’
‘My own heart let me more have pity on’
Epithalamion
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
‘Thou are indeed just, Lord’
To R.B.
The podcast can be found in any podcast app. It's called "Poetry: The poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins." But searching either GMH or Lance Pierson should find it.
It can be found in a web browser here: https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/106114
These recordings were first presented on two CDs, which are still available (£5 each plus P+P) from: LPP Recordings, 48 Peterborough Road, London SW6 3EB – 020-7731 6544).
2.3 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
General Editors: Lesley Higgins and Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
VOLUMES I AND II : Correspondence
Edited by R.K.R. Thornton and Catherine Phillips
- Complete and freshly re-edited from the original manuscripts
- Presented in chronological order with all letters to Hopkins included
in the sequence
- Hopkins's alterations and corrections are included, illuminating the
movement of the writer's mind
- Detailed introduction and comprehensive annotation
Volume III: Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks
Edited by Lesley Higgins
Edited by Lesley Higgins
- The first unexpurgated edition of GMH's extant diaries
- Includes of all the sketches and small drawings made in his diaries
- Includes drafts of the poems written while Hopkins was a student at Oxford
Volume IV: Oxford Essays and Notes 1863-1868
Lesley Higgins
Lesley Higgins
- Includes a remarkable amount of previously-unpublished material
- Contents a chronologically arranged allowing readers to folow Hopkins's intellectual development
- Full scholarly apparatus including extensive annotations and translations, cross-referencing, and substantial introductory materials and index
Volume V: Sermons and Spiritual Writings
Edited by Jude V. Nixon and Noel Barber, S.J.
Edited by Jude V. Nixon and Noel Barber, S.J.
- The latest addition to Oxford's Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Clearly laid out, and chronologically arranged
- All phrases and quotations in Latin and Greek are translated, immediately after the passage
- Readers will be able to follow Hopkins's spiritual development and challenges from his undergraduate lessons to his final 'retreat'
- Students familiar and unfamiliar with Hopkins and his religious milieux will benefit from the overview of the issues presented; extensive information about his Jesuit training; and background materials on central figures in his religious life
- One index, for easy access, will guide readers, at a glance, through the volume. Those interested in Hopkins's prose as it relates to his poetry, Victorian religious studies, and Victorian culture will be easily accommodated
3.0 IN OUR TIME - RADIO 4 - 21.03.19
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Hopkins...
with ….. Catherine Phillips, R.J.Owens fellow in English at Downing College, University of Cambridge, Jane Wright, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol and Martin Dubois, Assistant Professor in 19th C Literature at Durham University.
Available on the BBC Sounds App but also as a podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com) and on YouTube
4.0 THINKING FAITH
A Hopkins Society member, Dudley Harrap has forwarded an article from Thinking Faith which is the online journal of the Jesuits in Britain. ..... it is entitled "belief in Hopkins Turns" - and is about the devise of "turns" to shift the subject, argument etc ina sonnet"
"The poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, who was born on 28 July 1844, have been a source of inspiration and comfort to countless people over the years, not least because of the way in which they capture the power and dynamics of belief in God. Brian McClorry SJ looks at how Hopkins uses a poetic device to illustrate the tensions and discoveries of faith in three of his sonnets.
follow the link below ....
www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/belief-hopkins%E2%80%99-turns?mc_cid=4f6f185308&mc_eid=a96680ebb9
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Hopkins...
with ….. Catherine Phillips, R.J.Owens fellow in English at Downing College, University of Cambridge, Jane Wright, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol and Martin Dubois, Assistant Professor in 19th C Literature at Durham University.
Available on the BBC Sounds App but also as a podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com) and on YouTube
4.0 THINKING FAITH
A Hopkins Society member, Dudley Harrap has forwarded an article from Thinking Faith which is the online journal of the Jesuits in Britain. ..... it is entitled "belief in Hopkins Turns" - and is about the devise of "turns" to shift the subject, argument etc ina sonnet"
"The poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, who was born on 28 July 1844, have been a source of inspiration and comfort to countless people over the years, not least because of the way in which they capture the power and dynamics of belief in God. Brian McClorry SJ looks at how Hopkins uses a poetic device to illustrate the tensions and discoveries of faith in three of his sonnets.
follow the link below ....
www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/belief-hopkins%E2%80%99-turns?mc_cid=4f6f185308&mc_eid=a96680ebb9