Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life Tapa dura - 2008

Detalles

• Título Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life
• Autor Paul Mariani
• Encuadernación Tapa dura
• Edición First Edition
• Páginas 496
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Viking Books, New York
• Fecha de publicación 2008-10-30
• Ilustrado Sí
• ISBN 9780670020317 / 0670020311
• Peso 1.72 libras (0.78 kg)
• Dimensiones 9.52 x 6.29 x 1.5 pulgadas (24.18 x 15.98 x 3.81 cm)
• Época de 18 a UP años
• Cursos 13 - UP
• Library of Congress subjects Poets, English - 19th century, Hopkins, Gerard Manley
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2008036334
• Dewey Decimal Code B

“Few English poets can match Gerard Manley Hopkins for passionate expression of feeling and for inventiveness of form and language. Even fewer have his gift for distilling intense joy and religious feelings into luminous verse. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Hopkins eventually became a Jesuit priest. In Mariani, a poet and accomplished biographer of poets, the Victorian master has found his ideal biographer. The author’s profoundly empathetic understanding of his subject’s life and work—and of the milieus, secular and cloistered, in which he struggled to flourish—is apparent on every page of this exemplary work.”-Atlantic Monthly



“A revealing portrait of a unique talent, a deeply religious artist who saw God’s wonder and mystery in all.”-Kirkus Reviews



“The strength of this meticulous chronicle of the 19th-century Jesuit is the author’s focus on the inner life of a poet who was critically acclaimed after his death and almost unknown in his lifetime…fascinating. There is much to learn from this portrayal of an opinionated, often depressed yet likable priest-poet.”-Publishers Weekly



“Mariani retraces a torturous spiritual journey with the same acumen that has won praise for his biographies of Lowell, Williams, and Berryman. Literary scholarship informed by rare passion.”-Booklist



“Fantastic, absolutely first-rate; a true page-turner that superbly explains Hopkins’s conversion to Catholicism, his poetic genius, and his intellectual daring, while correcting earlier misconceptions that Hopkins was a failure as a Jesuit. With a novelist’s eye for the crucial detail, Paul Mariani has isolated the key moments in the life and constructed a narrative that gives evidence on every page that it was written not just from the head but from the heart.”-Ron Hansen, author of Mariette in Ecstasy and Exiles