In Extremity: A Study of Gerard Manley Hopkins

by John Robinson

Book Overview

This 1978 critical study of the English Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins provides original readings of the principal poems. It also gives full explanations of such terms as 'sprung rhythm' and 'inscape', and attempts to gauge the effect on Hopkins of the medieval schoolman John Duns Scotus. There have traditionally been two critical theories about Hopkins' work: that it was the result of a conflict between his priestly and his poetic vocations; or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521297303
• ISBN13: 9780521297301
• Release Date: June 1980
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"