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Read By: Margaret Rawlings Publisher: Saland Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 0.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 0.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: April 2008 Format: Abridged Audiobook ISBN:
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Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Essex, England, in 1844. During his lifetime, his work, at his own insistence, remained unpublished. Hopkins died in 1889, aged just 45, but it was not until 1918 that his work was first published and until 1930 that he first received acclaim. Here, Margaret Rawlings reads a selection of his finest work, including Starlight Night, Spring, Pied Piper, and Inversnaid.

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"Whichever professor I had for Victorian Lit in college somehow turned me off to Hopkins. All I can say in retrospect is that he or she must have been shitty teacher indeed, because this is genius work, full stop. It's a shame I had to get this old and cynical before I realized that."

— Kaya (5 out of 5 stars)

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  • Overall Performance: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5

    " I love this man's poetry, and when I discovered his journal entries, I was moved and delighted. He notices so much in nature; I love how he writes about the particular sunset of each day in his entries, and the birds he has seen. "

    — Anne, 1/19/2014
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    " My favorite poet. Such beauty. "

    — Shawna, 10/2/2013
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    " I like weird religious poetry that rhymes "

    — Michelle, 7/13/2013
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    " I found this book quite by accident when I was visiting relatives. I bought my own copy as soon as I got home. This book saved me in my mid-twenties. "

    — Noel, 7/9/2013
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    " Aside from the poetry I completely enjoyed reading the extracts from his journals and diaries. I especially loved the extract from On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialogue. It's mind altering. "

    — Jeanenne, 5/11/2013
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    " 4 stars isn't a critique of Hopkins (I love the guy), it simply reflects a desire for more Poems and less Prose. "

    — Lee, 3/30/2013
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    " Hopkins is a great poet. He was the best thing to happen to English poetry since the Romantics. His writing feels very 17th Century, reminiscent of the Metaphysical poets and the Jacobean dramatists in its union of thought, feeling and observation. "

    — Darran, 1/6/2012
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    " I wrote a previous review "

    — Maureen, 5/23/2011
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    " Incomparable imagery, sound, and rhythm. "

    — George, 11/17/2010
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    " A few poems are five stars+, but overall the volume is good. "

    — Jerry, 10/17/2010
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    " This is a beautifully made book, so the rating is for the thing itself, not the contents...Only four stars because there are nine illustrations interspersed between the poems and their absence from the prose is noticeable. "

    — Liam, 10/11/2010
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    " Hopkins has long been one of my favorite poets from the Victorian era. He was a closeted Catholic priest and an innovator of sublime poetry who, like Emily Dickinson (also a favorite of mine), published virtually nothing in his lifetime. "

    — Clifton, 8/26/2010
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    " If I could give it six stars, I would. "

    — John, 12/3/2009
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    " Exceptionally unique poet. "Spring" has quickly become a favorite of mine. "

    — Markelle, 9/23/2009
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    " I love the way Hopkins puts words together in unexpected pairings. His word jumble is fascinating and great fun to read aloud. "

    — Amy, 7/22/2009
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    " All of Hopkins' poetry is amazing, but the "Windhover" in particular is one of the most impressive lyrics I've every read. Hopkins' explosion of the sonnet form and embrace of the notion of oral poetry makes him one of the most powerful voices in modern poetry. "

    — Ernie, 11/26/2008

About Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was a leading Victorian poet and Jesuit priest. His experiments in prosody and use of imagery make him an innovator of his time. He attended Oxford University where he became a keen socialite and prolific poet, influenced by contemporaries such as Robert Bridges and Christina Rossetti. Hopkins was ordained in 1877 and became a professor of Greek and Latin at University College Dublin. Some of his best known works are “The Wreck of the Deutschland” and “The Windhover.”