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About the Vintage Spiritual Classics | |
Preface to the Vintage Spiritual Classics Edition | |
Chronology of the Life of Gerard Manley Hopkins | |
Poetry | |
Heaven-Haven (a nun takes the veil) | p. 3 |
The Habit of Perfection | p. 3 |
Nondum "Verily Thou art a God that hidest Thyself." (Isaiah 45:15) | p. 4 |
Oratio Patris Condren: O Jesu vivens in Maria | p. 7 |
S. Thomae Aquinatis: Rhythmus ad SS. Sacramentum | p. 7 |
The Wreck of the Deutschland (Dec. 6, 7, 1875) | p. 9 |
God's Grandeur | p. 21 |
The Starlight Night | p. 21 |
The Sea and the Skylark | p. 22 |
"As kingfishers catch fire" | p. 23 |
Spring | p. 23 |
The Windhover: to Christ our Lord | p. 24 |
Pied Beauty | p. 25 |
The Caged Skylark | p. 25 |
Hurrahing in Harvest | p. 26 |
The Lantern out of Doors | p. 26 |
The Loss of the Eurydice (foundered March 24, 1878) | p. 27 |
Duns Scotus's Oxford | p. 32 |
Henry Purcell | p. 32 |
The Bugler's First Communion | p. 33 |
Binsey Poplars (felled 1879) | p. 35 |
Felix Randal | p. 36 |
Spring and Fall: to a Young Child | p. 37 |
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (Maidens' song from St. Winefred's Well) | p. 38 |
Ribblesdale | p. 40 |
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe | p. 41 |
"I wake and feel" | p. 45 |
"No worst" | p. 45 |
To what serves Mortal Beauty? | p. 46 |
Carrion Comfort | p. 47 |
The Soldier | p. 47 |
"Thee, God, I come from" | p. 48 |
"My own heart" | p. 49 |
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves | p. 50 |
Harry Ploughman | p. 51 |
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection | p. 52 |
In honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez | p. 53 |
Justus quidem tu es, Domine | p. 54 |
Early Diaries | |
Oxford, 1863: Flick, fillip, flip, fleck, flake | p. 57 |
January 23, 1866: For Lent. No pudding on Sundays | p. 57 |
Journal | |
July 17, 1866: "... the impossibility of staying in the Church of England" | p. 61 |
August 22, 1867: "Bright. - Walked to Finchley and turned down a lane to a field where I sketched an appletree" | p. 61 |
July 11, 1868: Holiday in Switzerland | p. 62 |
March 12, 1870: "A fine sunset: the higher sky dead clear blue" | p. 68 |
May 12, 1870: "One day when the bluebells were in bloom" | p. 68 |
1871: "The spring weather began with March" | p. 69 |
February 23, 1872: "A lunar halo: I looked at it from the upstairs library window" | p. 77 |
February 24, 1873: "In the snow flat-topped hillocks and shoulders outlined with wavy edges" | p. 78 |
Letters | |
October 15, 1866: To the Rev. Dr. John H. Newman (on his conversion) | p. 83 |
October 16, 1866: To his father (on his conversion) | p. 84 |
August 21, 1877: To Robert Bridges (on sprung rhythm) | p. 89 |
My 30, 1878: To Robert Bridges (on how to read "The Loss of the Eurydice") | p. 92 |
October 25, 1879: To Robert Bridges (on different kinds of beauty) | p. 95 |
October 12, 1881: To R. W. Dixon (on the sonnet and on the stages of becoming a Jesuit) | p. 96 |
October 29, 1881: To R. W. Dixon (on his vocation and on obedience) | p. 101 |
December 1, 1881: To R. W. Dixon (on the relationship between dedication to God's service and literary matters) | p. 103 |
February 3, 1883: To Robert Bridges (on Christ's "chastity of mind") | p. 108 |
March 7, 1884: To Robert Bridges (on being in Dublin) | p. 111 |
June 4, 1886: To Coventry Patmore (on the values of English civilization) | p. 112 |
May 8, 1889: To his mother ("My fever is a sort of typhoid") | p. 115 |
Poetics | |
1865?: Poetic Diction (an essay written for the Master of Balliol) | p. 119 |
February 9, 1868: "All Words Mean Either Things or Relations of Things" | p. 122 |
c. 1883: Author's Preface (written for the manuscript book of his poems kept by Robert Bridges) | p. 124 |
Sermons | |
Cure of the Deaf and Dumb Man (Mark 7:31-37) | p. 131 |
On the Healing of Jairus' Daughter and the Woman with the Issue of Blood (Matt. 9:18-26; Mark 5:22; Luke 8:41) | p. 133 |
On Jesus Christ as Our Hero (Luke 2:33) | p. 137 |
"Rejoice in the Lord always" (Phil 4:4, 5) | p. 144 |
The Paraclete (John 16:5-14) | p. 148 |
On Divine Providence and the Guardian Angels | p. 158 |
Commentary on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and Other Spiritual Writings | |
First Principle and Foundation, from the Spiritual Exercises | p. 167 |
On Principium sive Fundamentum (On Creation) | p. 167 |
On Grace and Free Will | p. 168 |
Christ's grace - a purifying and mortifying grace | p. 171 |
Contemplation on Love | p. 173 |
Creation and Redemption: The Great Sacrifice November 8, 1881 (Long Retreat) | p. 174 |
Instructions: The Principle or Foundation | p. 180 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 185 |
Acknowledgments | p. 191 |
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