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 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.
1.2 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 over 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)
1.2 THE HOPKINS SOCIETY JOURNAL no 39 2019
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:
- " A Funny Way to Treat a Friend" by Jill Robson - A personal reflection on Robert Bridges' editor's preface to Notes in the First Edition of Poems" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- 'The Belly Dancer in a Corset" by Kelsey Thornton - some comments on "My own heart let me more have pity on" .. Kelsey occasionally uses the description of Hopkins as a"belly dancer in a corset" when they are trying to find a fitting image for his paradoxical love of both freedom and control ......
- 'The Brooding Wooddove" by Sally Beresford-Sheridan .... discusses the importance of imagery and artistic sensibilty for Hopkins and illustrates this with that found in "Peace" ....
- "Hopkins in Altricham" by Dudley Harrop - Dudley lives in Hale near Bowden and outlines his excitement at finding that Hopkins visited his Balliol friend, Edmund Geldart in Bowden in 1865 .....
- "Poetic Pimpernel" by Kate Glover - snippets of interest over the year in Hopkins circles
- "Book Review" by Jill Robson - reviewing "Bright Wings Dappled Things: the poems of GMH with Photographs" by Fr Francis Browne SJ - by J0 O'Donavan RSM - a beautiful book with relevant photographs but ill chosen for the purpose .....
1.3 THE HOPKINS SOCIETY JOURNAL no 38 2018
published by The Hopkins Press - free to members. £2.00 otherwise - 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 …..obtainable from m.burgess154@btinternet.com
Includes:
"Airy Cages" HOPKINS FIFTH AMENDMENT by Sheila Mercieca - a re-evaluation of the fifth manuscript of "Binsey Poplars" where "My aspens dear, whose leafy cages quelled" is altered to "airy cages quelled" …. medical evidence shows that in the months prior to Hopkins curacy at Oxford, those with wealth or status sought to escape the city in search of clean air while those at Nazareth House which provided care for the destitute in the city and visited by Hopkins, encountered the opposite. Binsey Poplars juxtaposes the vulnerability of nature and life and the poplars are "airy cages" which transform into bronchial trees, resembling human lungs. The poem becomes a correlation for the conditions and residents of Nazareth House and an elegy for its dead.
POEMS ON THE THEME OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS - Professor Kelsey Thornton (Newcastle University) - several poems written in response to several years spent in Hopkins' presence as Kelsey edited his letters ….
POETIC PIMPERNEL Kate Glover on birds and Hopkins ….
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 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.
1.2 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 over 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)
1.2 THE HOPKINS SOCIETY JOURNAL no 39 2019
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:
- " A Funny Way to Treat a Friend" by Jill Robson - A personal reflection on Robert Bridges' editor's preface to Notes in the First Edition of Poems" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- 'The Belly Dancer in a Corset" by Kelsey Thornton - some comments on "My own heart let me more have pity on" .. Kelsey occasionally uses the description of Hopkins as a"belly dancer in a corset" when they are trying to find a fitting image for his paradoxical love of both freedom and control ......
- 'The Brooding Wooddove" by Sally Beresford-Sheridan .... discusses the importance of imagery and artistic sensibilty for Hopkins and illustrates this with that found in "Peace" ....
- "Hopkins in Altricham" by Dudley Harrop - Dudley lives in Hale near Bowden and outlines his excitement at finding that Hopkins visited his Balliol friend, Edmund Geldart in Bowden in 1865 .....
- "Poetic Pimpernel" by Kate Glover - snippets of interest over the year in Hopkins circles
- "Book Review" by Jill Robson - reviewing "Bright Wings Dappled Things: the poems of GMH with Photographs" by Fr Francis Browne SJ - by J0 O'Donavan RSM - a beautiful book with relevant photographs but ill chosen for the purpose .....
1.3 THE HOPKINS SOCIETY JOURNAL no 38 2018
published by The Hopkins Press - free to members. £2.00 otherwise - 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 …..obtainable from m.burgess154@btinternet.com
Includes:
"Airy Cages" HOPKINS FIFTH AMENDMENT by Sheila Mercieca - a re-evaluation of the fifth manuscript of "Binsey Poplars" where "My aspens dear, whose leafy cages quelled" is altered to "airy cages quelled" …. medical evidence shows that in the months prior to Hopkins curacy at Oxford, those with wealth or status sought to escape the city in search of clean air while those at Nazareth House which provided care for the destitute in the city and visited by Hopkins, encountered the opposite. Binsey Poplars juxtaposes the vulnerability of nature and life and the poplars are "airy cages" which transform into bronchial trees, resembling human lungs. The poem becomes a correlation for the conditions and residents of Nazareth House and an elegy for its dead.
POEMS ON THE THEME OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS - Professor Kelsey Thornton (Newcastle University) - several poems written in response to several years spent in Hopkins' presence as Kelsey edited his letters ….
POETIC PIMPERNEL Kate Glover on birds and Hopkins ….
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