The World Is Charged

The World Is Charged by Daniel Westover )

The discovery of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry in the twentieth century was a revelation for postwar poets, who discovered in both Hopkins's style and subject matter a voice seemingly bottled for their own time. This influence has not faded in the twenty-first century; in fact, it has grown all the more pervasive as poets from many backgrounds and nations have found, in the voice of this nineteenth-century Jesuit, a revolutionary way of addressing contemporary concerns relating to human imagination, ecology, "green" ethics, the role of art, and individual spirituality. The poets collected in The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins engage with Hopkins in diverse ways. Some mention Hopkins or address some aspect of his life. Others channel his innovative poetics or address important Hopkinsian themes. All demonstrate the centrality of his influence in contemporary poetry. Unfortunately, critics have mostly neglected the importance of Hopkins as a contemporary model, instead pinning his influence to the early twentieth century. In a climate where high modernism, Whitmanic free verse, and the confessional lyric are often held up as contemporary poetry's dominant forerunners, this book proposes a more complex genealogy, tracing back to Hopkins and his influential early admirers current strands of emotional and spiritual openness, pleasure in word play and sonic textures, and veneration of the dynamic material world.

William Wright is the author of A Tidy Little War: The British Invasion of Egypt 1882 and a former chairman of the Victorian Military Society. Formerly employed in the media and public relations, he is now semi-retired and spends much of his time visiting colonial battlefield in Africa and New Zealand, amongst others.

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ISBN 13	9781942954200
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Titel	The World Is Charged
Autor	Daniel Westover )
Serie	Clemson University Press W Lup
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Clemson University Digital Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2016-06-16
Seitenanzahl	164
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