The Fire that Breaks

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Poetic Legacies

• Author(s): Daniel Westover, Thomas Alan Holmes,
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Pages: 256
• ISBN_10: 1942954379
  ISBN_13: 9781942954378
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Collections / General , Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Poetry , History / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901) , History / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century , Literary Collections / Essays , Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... The Fire that Breaks traces Gerard Manley Hopkins’s continuing and pervasive influence among writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Not only do the essays explore responses to Hopkins by individual writers—including, among others, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, and Charles Wright—but they also examine Hopkins’s substantial influence among Caribbean poets, Appalachian writers, and contemporary poets whose work lies at the intersection of ecopoetry and theology. Combining essays by the world’s leading Hopkins scholars with essays by scholars from diverse fields, the essays examine both known and unexpected affinities, and The Fire that Breaks is a persistent testimony to the lasting, continuing impact of Hopkins on poetry in English.