The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Volume III: Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks
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- 2015
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- Oxford University Press
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- Corby
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This volume, the latest in Oxford's edititon of 'The collected works of Gerary Manley Hopkins', presents Hopkins at his most private and self-considering: there are mundane memoranda about neckties to purchase or letters to write, but also exacting revisions of poems. There are entries of quiet rapture, his attention caught by the unexpected sight of a bluebell or 'some delicate flying shafted ashes ... between which the sun sent straight bright slenderish panes of silver sunbeams down the slant towards the eye'. Paintings, sculptures, and works of literature are stringently assessed, his aesthetic principles freely exercised. There are also nightmares relived; undergraduate 'sins' unsparingly recorded; 'signs' of heavenly mercy carefully noted; small acts of 'kindness' from others, both unexpected and restorative, gratefully acknowledged. Like most diarists, Hopkins was committed to life-writing practices not simply to itemize his daily activities, but to explore the possibilities of textual 'selving'.
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- Number of Pages:
- xlix, 722
- ISBN:
- 97801995340050199534004