As Kingfishers Catch Fire - Selected & Annotated Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Author(s): Gerard Manley Hopkins; Holly Ordway (Edited by)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of the English language. A Jesuit priest known for his sophisticated but innovative style, Hopkins wrote poetry that expressed the full range of emotional and spiritual experience, taking readers through trials and triumphs before coming to a place of deep resignation in God.
As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Selected and Annotated Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins offers thirty-seven of this Victorian poet’s greatest works with detailed, line-by-line annotations by Dr. Holly Ordway that provide valuable literary and cultural references, illuminate Hopkins’ word choice, and help readers unpack his complex sentence structure. Featuring classics like “The Windhover” and “God’s Grandeur” but also various lesser-known poems, it is perfect for the seasoned poet and the first-time reader alike, acquainting them with this brilliant mind of the Catholic tradition.
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Dr. Holly Ordway is the Cardinal Francis George Fellow of Faith and Culture at the Word on Fire Institute. She is a visiting professor at Houston Baptist University and holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages (Word on Fire Academic, 2021), Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith (Emmaus Road, 2017), and Not God’s Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms (Ignatius, 2014). Ordway is also a published poet and a Subject Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies. Her academic work focuses on the writings of the Inklings, especially C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
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- : Word on Fire
- : Word on Fire
- : 01 April 2023
- : books
Special Fields
- : Gerard Manley Hopkins; Holly Ordway (Edited by)
- : Paperback
- : HS
- : 176
