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Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life

Door Robert Bernard Martin

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#255574
Titel	Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life
Auteur	Martin, Robert Bernard
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London, HarperCollins
Jaar van uitgave	1991
ISBN10	0002176629
ISBN13	9780002176620
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Probably no English poet of the 19th century is today so widely read or greatly loved as Gerard Manley Hopkins. Yet in his lifetime he was almost entirely unpublished, and only a handful of his close friends knew that he wrote poetry at all. On his death, many of Hopkins' poems, together with most of his other papers, were burned by his fellow Jesuits who did not realize what they had in their midst; and they were to guard closely what remained, until now. Robert Bernard Martin is the first biographer to have had unrestricted access to Hopkins' surviving papers. The result is as complete a biography of this astonishingly immediate poet as we are ever likely to achieve. It is also, in places, revelatory. Martin shows that the homosexuality many have found latent in Hopkins' poetry blossomed... (Lees verder) in his undergraduate love for a flamboyant friend Digby Dolben. He also shows how, though Hopkins' chaotic psyche needed the structure which life as a Jesuit gave him, the severity of its discipline inevitably constricted his creative faculty, at times almost to the point of strangulation. Despite the obscurity of Hopkins' life, his surviving work marks him as a central figure in English literature.
Pagina's	448
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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