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Overview
Hopkins' Idealism provides a thorough re-examination of the nineteenth-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), whose early writings on philosophy have to date received little critical attention. It is the first full-length study of Hopkins' largely unpublished Oxford undergraduate essays and notes on philosophy and mechanics. The volume also offers radical new readings of some of Hopkins' best-known poems.
Synopsis
Hopkins' Idealism provides a thorough re-examination of the nineteenth-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), whose early writings on philosophy have to date received little critical attention. It is the first full-length study of Hopkins' largely unpublished Oxford undergraduate essays and notes on philosophy and mechanics. The volume also offers radical new readings of some of Hopkins' best-known poems.
Booknews
Brown (English, U. of Western Australia) cites British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' (1844-89) unpublished Oxford essays on philosophy to challenge the prevailing view of him as a conservative High-Church ritualist. He finds a boldly speculative intellectual liberal less concerned with Christian factionalism than with countering contemporary threats to faith itself, particularly scientism. He traces Hopkins' thought to the British Idealism he encountered at Oxford and the new high-energy physics of the 1850s and 1860s. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.