Gerard Manley Hopkins

Oct 2, 2024 | kathmandupost.com | Frances Hodgson Burnett |Colin Thubron |Jane Austen |Gerard Manley Hopkins

I first met Louisa Kamal at my college, where she was invited as one of the trainers for a News Writing Workshop. Dressed simply, she captivated me with her eloquent command of language. As the minutes stretched into hours, I learned she hailed from the UK but had spent over half her life in Asia, including Thailand, Japan, and Nepal. She taught English literature for many years at government universities in Thailand and Japan.

Jun 3, 2024 | plough.com | Gerard Manley Hopkins |Julian Peters

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oilCrushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soilIs bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

Mar 26, 2024 | allpoetry.com | Gerard Manley Hopkins

Virtually unknown in his lifetime, we have his poetry today only because it was collected and published by his friends after his death, painted with the obsessive ornateness and sentimentality of the Victorians, but also a startling musicality which was said to be ahead of its time.

Nov 7, 2023 | pineandlakes.com | Gerard Manley Hopkins

It seems like for a few weeks now when I step outside and the sun is to the west, my yard is bathed in the bright yellow light filtered through and reflecting off the yellow leaves of the birch trees in my yard. Every year around this time when I bathe in the light coming through the trees, it reminds me of two things. First, in my freshman year of college an English professor introduced me to the poem "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Aug 16, 2023 | principia-scientific.com | John Leake |Gerard Manley Hopkins

Published on August 16, 2023Written by John LeakeIn 2014, The Telegraph reported that Millions of trees chopped down to make way for Scottish wind farms. Every year since then, multiple journals have reported that the chopping down of Scotland’s trees and digging up of its peat bogs has continued unabatedThis year’s reporting estimate that the number is now up to 15.7 million trees have been felled to make way for gigantic, ugly, bird-killing, and inefficient wind turbines.