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Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Matching Creativities
"Incertus" as GMH as Seamus Heaney	p. 3
"By the Gate of the Sacred"	p. 5
Hopkins and I	p. 9
Afterthoughts: GMH	p. 12
Hopkins and I	p. 13
Physical Matters
Following Hopkins	p. 23
A Hopkins Apprenticeship	p. 29
Hopkins and Me	p. 33
The Incessant Calls from Hopkins: From a Tributary, a Winding Stream to the Main Current	p. 36
Why Hopkins Matters to Me	p. 43
Hopkins Made Me	p. 47
Stumbling on Hopkins	p. 51
Why Hopkins Matters to Me	p. 53
Physical Responses
For the Sake of Selving	p. 59
How Did I Come to Gerard Manley Hopkins?	p. 62
Hopkins and Me: How and Why	p. 66
"These things were there"	p. 69
Birds, Nests and Aerial Spaces, or: Why Hopkins Matters to Me	p. 72
Swimming and Diving with Hopkins	p. 80
An Ascot for Astronauts: Riding the Eternal Carousel with Gerard Manley Hopkins	p. 84
Intellectual Responses
G.M. Hopkins, the Transparency of Language and Modernist Word-Skepticism	p. 95
Hopkins in My Life and Work	p. 102
A Poet Who Came to Brood and Sit	p. 108
Master of Inscapes as Matrix of Invention	p. 111
My Encounters with Hopkins	p. 122
Hopkins' Articulate Self	p. 125
Why Hopkins Matters	p. 130
Pilgrimage to a Text
A Tale of Five Continents	p. 137
Dramatizing the Text
My Beautiful Persian Carpet	p. 173
Brass-bold: An Actor and G.M. Hopkins	p. 177
Hopkins Gladly Performed	p. 181
How I Became a Hopkins Performer	p. 185
Personal Responses
Hopkins and His Canonical Preservation	p. 189
A Poet Who Resurrects Comfort	p. 192
A Vigorous Discipline	p. 196
What Hopkins Means to Me	p. 200
How I Came, by Others' Wisdom and Kindness, to Be a (Novice) Hopkins Scholar	p. 204
"Striding high there": Hopkins' Poetic Achievements	p. 208
Hopkins and God's Grandeur	p. 212
Birth of a Brain: Finding Hopkins Finding Self	p. 216
Hopkins as Lifeline	p. 222
Godly Responses
Hopkins, Sacrifice and God	p. 233
Reading Hopkins: A Dialogue between Two Traditions	p. 237
Why Does Hopkins' Poetry Mean So Much to the Japanese?	p. 246
Reading Hopkins	p. 251
A Memoir about Hopkins	p. 254
Why Hopkins Matters to Me	p. 258
Praying with Hopkins	p. 262
Drawn in by Hopkins
My Hopkins Apprenticeship	p. 269
Why Hopkins and Me?	p. 272
Coming to Hopkins	p. 278
Hopkins and I	p. 282
Postmodern Indeterminacy and the Search for Meaning: Why Hopkins Matters to Me	p. 286
Hopkins' Poetry: I Cannot Choose but Hear	p. 290
Catching Up with Hopkins	p. 295
Abbreviations	p. 299
Notes	p. 300
Contributors	p. 305
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