The Hopkins Quarterly

Tonight you can hear the radio piece I made about the last works and last months of poet G.M. Hopkins with Dylan Tighe on RTÉ Drama On One at 8:20pm. The photo is a still from the promenade piece with Will O'Connell. @rteradio1 @MoLI_Museum

Congratulations to HM King Charles III on his accession to the throne of the UK — seen here in Rome with co-editor of The Hopkins Quarterly, Prof Michael D. Hurley, on the occasion of the canonisation of Cardinal John Henry Newman

Live-streamed lecture on Hopkins: 4pm (BST), Sunday 8th May

London: Talk on Gerard Manley Hopkins indcatholicnews.com/news/44632 via @icn_uk

@gibson807 @bricksilk Christianity is a religion of hope, no more so than at Easter. On your 2nd point, there is a long & strong theological tradition explicitly linking stewardship of the world with a love for God who created it. Read Hopkins. Read the Pope’s 2015 Laudato Si: vatican.va/content/dam/fr…

@TheHopkinsQ @bricksilk My opinion on why Christianity has almost disappeared is because people just can't relate to it. Maybe I'm wrong but exactly how does this uplift people who, over the past year especially, have been put through the wringer? Environmentalism has f.a. to do with a deity, be real.

A brilliantly thoughtful and moving reading that captures Hopkins’ own explicit directions for the recitation of this poem: “To be read...slowly, strongly marking the rhythms and fetching out the syllables.”

@ClarenceHouse @Stonyhurst A brilliantly thoughtful and moving reading that captures Hopkins’ own explicit directions for the recitation of this poem: “To be read...slowly, strongly marking the rhythms and fetching out the syllables.”

Wishing you a very happy Easter Sunday 🐣🌼 In support for Christians around the world, The Prince has contributed to this year’s Easter Meditation at @Stonyhurst College in Lancashire. His Royal Highness reads ‘God’s Grandeur’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

@mdhcambridge, @rebekahannlamb, and Dr Jan Graffius @StonyArchivum discuss Hopkins’ poem “God’s Grandeur” — the podcast explores Hopkins’ life and verse, and the inspiration he drew from experiences @Stonyhurst jesuitcollections.org.uk/gods-grandeur

Co-editor of The Hopkins Quarterly, @mdhcambridge, discusses the interplay between Hopkins’ verse style and his religious faith in wide-ranging interview on “Faith and Imagination” for the @byuhumcenter podcast: faith-and-imagination.castos.com/episodes/faith…

Wonderful birthday news! The Hopkins Quarterly is delighted by this sponsorship, which is an exciting development in @Stonyhurst’s support for scholarship on one of its most illustrious literary figures. Read more here: thehopkinsquarterly.org/newsfeed/stron…

Happy birthday to essayist and poet Hillaire Belloc, b. 1870, who wrote, "When I am dead, I hope it may be said: / His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."

Today is the anniversary of the death of Fr. Gerald Manley Hopkins in 1889. Read his poem, Heaven-Haven, in the second picture below.

Hopkins’ letters/diaries are likewise thick with appreciation for art’s transformative power — eg describing how Wordsworth’s Intimations of Immortality sent a “shock” through “the English speaking world”; and how, ever since reading the ode himself, he had been in a “tremble”.

Here is a “clean” text of the poem, with brief study guide: hopkinspoetry.com/poem/the-windh…

It is fascinating to track something of his inspired process of composition, through the earlier drafts

#OTD in 1877 @Beunos Hopkins composed “The Windhover” — later calling it “the best thing I ever wrote” (letter to Bridges, 22 June 1879)