SELECTED POETRY

by Hopkins, Gerard Manley; Phillips, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780192834928
• ISBN10: 0192834924
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality. He is widely admired for his particularly vivid expression of feeling, from the religious ecstasy of 'he Blessed Virgin' to the torments of his loneliness and despair in 'No Worst', and for conveyingwith wonderful freshness his sense of natural beauty in such poems as 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty'. This selection, chosen from the award-winning Oxford Authors critical edition, includes all his major English poems and most of the larger fragments. The poems are supported with extensive notes and a useful introduction to Hopkins's life and poetry.

Author Biography

Catherine Phillips is Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Downing College, Cambridge. Her publications include her Gerard Manley Hopkins edition for the Oxford Authors series (1986), and the Selected Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins (OUP, 1990).

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Introduction
Chronology
Note on the Text
The Escorial	p. 1
Aeschylus: Prometheus Desmotes	p. 6
Il Mystico	p. 7
A windy day in summer	p. 11
A fragment of anything you like	p. 11
A Vision of the Mermaids	p. 11
Winter with the Gulf Stream	p. 15
Spring and Death	p. 16
Pilate	p. 17
'She schools the flighty pupils of her eyes'	p. 20
A Soliloquy of One of the Spies left in the Wilderness	p. 21
The Lover's Stars	p. 22
The peacock's eye	p. 23
Love preparing to fly	p. 24
Barnfloor and Winepress	p. 24
New Readings	p. 25
'He hath abolished the old drouth'	p. 26
Heaven-Haven	p. 26
'I must hunt down the prize'	p. 27
'Why should their foolish bands, their hopeless hearses'	p. 27
'It was a hard thing to undo this knot'	p. 27
'Glimmer'd along the square-cut steep'	p. 28
'Miss Story's character! too much you ask'	p. 28
(Epigrams)	p. 29
Floris in Italy	p. 31
Io	p. 36
The rainbow	p. 36
'- Yes for a time they held as well'	p. 37
Gabriel	p. 37
'- I am like a slip of comet'	p. 39
'No, they are come; their horn is lifted up'	p. 39
'Now I am minded to take pipe in hand'	p. 40
A Voice from the World	p. 40
For a Picture of Saint Dorothea	p. 46
St. Dorothea (lines for a picture)	p. 46
Lines for a Picture of St. Dorothea	p. 48
'Proved Etherege prudish, selfish, hypocrite, heartless'	p. 49
Richard	p. 50
'All as that moth call'd Underwing, alighted'	p. 52
The Queen's Crowning	p. 53
For Stephen and Barberie	p. 58
'Boughs being pruned, birds preened, show more fair'	p. 58
'When eyes that cast about the heights of heaven'	p. 58
The Summer Malison	p. 59
St. Thecla	p. 59
Easter Communion	p. 60
'O Death, Death, He is come'	p. 61
'Love me as I love thee. of double sweet!'	p. 61
To Oxford	p. 61
'Where art thou friend, whom I shall never see'	p. 63
'Confirmed beauty will not bear a stress; -'	p. 63
The Beginning of the End	p. 64
The Alchemist in the City	p. 65
'Myself unholy, from myself unholy'	p. 67
'See how Spring opens with disabling cold'	p. 67
Continuation of R. Garnet's Nix	p. 68
'O what a silence is this wilderness!'	p. 69
'Mothers are doubtless happier for their babes'	p. 69
Daphne	p. 70
Castara Victrix	p. 70
'My prayers must meet a brazen heaven'	p. 72
Shakspere	p. 73
'Trees by their yield'	p. 73
'Let me be to Thee as the circling bird'	p. 74
The Half-way House	p. 75
A Complaint	p. 75
'Moonless darkness stands between'	p. 76
'The earth and heaven, so little known'	p. 76
The Nightingale	p. 77
The Habit of Perfection	p. 79
Nondum	p. 80
Easter	p. 81
Summa	p. 82
Jesu Dulcis Memoria	p. 83
'Not kind! to freeze me with forecast'	p. 84
Horace: Persicos odi, puer, apparatus	p. 85
Horace: Odi profanum volgus et arceo	p. 85
The Elopement	p. 87
Oratio Patris Condren	p. 88
Ad Mariam	p. 88
O Deus, ego amo te	p. 89
Rosa Mystica	p. 90
On St. Winefred	p. 92
S. Thomae Aquinatis Rhythmus	p. 92
Author's Preface	p. 94
The Wreck of the Deutschland	p. 98
The Silver Jubilee	p. 107
Moonrise June 19 1876	p. 108
The Woodlark	p. 109
Penmaen Pool	p. 110
(Margaret Clitheroe)	p. 111
'Hope holds to Christ the mind's own mirror out'	p. 113
God's Grandeur	p. 114
The Starlight Night	p. 114
'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame'	p. 115
Spring	p. 115
The Sea and the Skylark	p. 116
In the Valley of the Elwy	p. 116
The Windhover	p. 117
Pied Beauty	p. 117
The Caged Skylark	p. 118
'To him who ever thought with love of me'	p. 118
Hurrahing in Harvest	p. 119
The Lantern out of Doors	p. 119
The Loss of the Eurydice	p. 120
The May Magnificat	p. 124
'Denis'	p. 125
'The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down'	p. 125
'He mightbe slow and something feckless first'	p. 126
'What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been'	p. 126
Duns Scotus's Oxford	p. 127
Binsey Poplars	p. 127
Henry Purcell	p. 128
'Repeat that, repeat'	p. 129
The Candle Indoors	p. 129
The Handsome Heart	p. 129
'How all is one way wrought!' (On a Piece of Music)	p. 130
Cheery Beggar	p. 131
The Bugler's First Communion	p. 132
Andromeda	p. 133
Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice	p. 134
Peace	p. 134
At the Wedding March	p. 135
Felix Randal	p. 135
Brothers	p. 136
Spring and Fall	p. 137
Inversnaid	p. 138
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo	p. 138
Ribblesdale	p. 140
A Trio of Triolets	p. 141
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe	p. 142
'The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less'	p. 145
St. Winefred's Well	p. 145
'To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life'	p. 151
'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'	p. 151
'Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail'	p. 152
'No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief'	p. 152
To what serves Moral Beauty?	p. 152
(Carrion Comfort)	p. 153
(The Soldier)	p. 153
'Thee, God, I come from, to thee go'	p. 154
'Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray'	p. 155
'My own heart let me more have pity on; let'	p. 156
To his Watch	p. 156
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves	p. 157
On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People	p. 157
Harry Ploughman	p. 159
(Ashboughs)	p. 159
Tom's Garland	p. 160
Epithalamion	p. 161
'The sea took pity: it interposed with doom'	p. 162
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection	p. 163
'What shall I do for the land that bred me'	p. 164
In honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez	p. 164
'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'	p. 165
'The shepherd's brow, fronting forked lightning, owns'	p. 166
To R. B.	p. 166
Notes	p. 167
Further Reading	p. 252
Index of Short Titles and First Lines	p. 256
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