GM Hopkins Archive

Lectures from GM HOPKINS FESTIVAL 2023

Vision and perception in GM Hopkins’s ‘The peacock’s eye’ Katarzyna Stefanowicz

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s diary entries from his early Oxford years are a medley of poems, fragments of poems or prose texts but also sketches of natural phenomena or architectural (mostly gothic) features. In a letter to Alexander Baillie written around the time of composition He was planning to follow in the footsteps of the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who had been known for writing poetry alongside painting pictures ... Read more

Morning's Minion:Hopkins,Trees and Birds Margaret Ellsberg

Margaret Ellsberg discusses Hopkins's connection with trees and birds, and how in everything he wrote, he associates wild things with a state of rejuvenation. In a letter to Robert Bridges in 1881 about his poem “Inversnaid,” he says “there’s something, if I could only seize it, on the decline of wild nature.” It turns out that Hopkins himself--eye-witness accounts to the contrary notwithstanding--was rather wild. Read more

Joyce, Newman and Hopkins : Desmond Egan

Joyce's friend, Jacques Mercanton has recorded that he regarded Newman as ‘the greatest of English prose writers’. Mercanton adds that Joyce spoke excitedly about an article that had just appeared in The Irish Times and had to do with the University of Dublin, “sanctified’ by Cardinal Newman, Gerard Manley Hopkins and himself Read more ...

Hopkins and Death Eamon Kiernan

An abiding fascination with death can be identified in the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Easily taken for a sign of pathological morbidity, the poet's interest in death can also be read more positively as indicating, his strong awareness of a fundamental human challenge and his deployment of his intellectual and artistic gifts to try to meet it. Hopkins's understanding of death is apocalyptic. ... As will be shown, apocalyptic thought reaches beyond temporal finality. Hopkins's apocalyptic view of death shows itself with perhaps the greatest consequence in those few works which make the actual event of death a primary concern and which, moreover, leave in place the ordinariness of dying, as opposed to portrayals of the exceptional deaths of saints and martyrs. Read more

Lectures from Hopkins Literary Festival July 2022

Landscape in Hopkins and Egan Poetry Giuseppe Serpillo
Walt Whitman and Hopkins Poetry Desmond Egan
Emily Dickenson and Hopkins Poetry Brett Millier
Dualism in Hopkins Brendan Staunton SJ Brendan Staunton SJ

Lectures delivered at the Hopkins Literary Festival since 1987

Lectures from GM HOPKINS FESTIVAL 2023

Vision and perception in GM Hopkins’s ‘The peacock’s eye’ Katarzyna Stefanowicz

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s diary entries from his early Oxford years are a medley of poems, fragments of poems or prose texts but also sketches of natural phenomena or architectural (mostly gothic) features. In a letter to Alexander Baillie written around the time of composition He was planning to follow in the footsteps of the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who had been known for writing poetry alongside painting pictures ... Read more

Hopkins Trees and Birds Margaret Ellsberg

Margaret Ellsberg discusses Hopkins's connection with trees and birds, and how in everything he wrote, he associates wild things with a state of rejuvenation. In a letter to Robert Bridges in 1881 about his poem “Inversnaid,” he says “there’s something, if I could only seize it, on the decline of wild nature.” It turns out that Hopkins himself--eye-witness accounts to the contrary notwithstanding--was rather wild. Read more

Joyce, Newman and Hopkins : Desmond Egan

Joyce's friend, Jacques Mercanton has recorded that he regarded Newman as ‘the greatest of English prose writers’. Mercanton adds that Joyce spoke excitedly about an article that had just appeared in The Irish Times and had to do with the University of Dublin, “sanctified’ by Cardinal Newman, Gerard Manley Hopkins and himself Read more ...

Hopkins and Death Eamon Kiernan

An abiding fascination with death can be identified in the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Easily taken for a sign of pathological morbidity, the poet's interest in death can also be read more positively as indicating, his strong awareness of a fundamental human challenge and his deployment of his intellectual and artistic gifts to try to meet it. Hopkins's understanding of death is apocalyptic. ... As will be shown, apocalyptic thought reaches beyond temporal finality. Hopkins's apocalyptic view of death shows itself with perhaps the greatest consequence in those few works which make the actual event of death a primary concern and which, moreover, leave in place the ordinariness of dying, as opposed to portrayals of the exceptional deaths of saints and martyrs. Read more

Lectures from Hopkins Literary Festival July 2022

Landscape in Hopkins and Egan Poetry Giuseppe Serpillo
Walt Whitman and Hopkins Poetry Desmond Egan
Emily Dickenson and Hopkins Poetry Brett Millier
Dualism in Hopkins Brendan Staunton SJ

hopkins notebook — Hopkins's Manuscript Notebook

Lecturers, Speakers in Hopkins Archive (1987-2023)

Names and links to 150 Lectures on topics related to Gerard Manley Hopkins, his life and interests. These Lectures were delivered at The GM Hopkins Literary Festival each Julu since 1987.

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Adamson William, University of Ulm, Germany

Agnew Una SSL, Milltown Institute Dublin

Allsopp Michael E., Fort Lauderdale, Miami US

Arkins Brian NUI Galway (Emeritus)

Axelrod David, New York Poet Laureate

Badin Donatella, University Turin Italy

Bagchee Shyamal Alberta University Canada

Bagnall, Sean, Naas, President, Hopkins Society 2023

Ballinger Philip Gonzage University Spokane US

Bizzini Chantal Paris

Bloch Alice US

Böker Ewe Germany German

Bottone Angelo NUI Dublin

Bozdechova Ivana Charles University Prague Czech

Brown Mark William Jamestown College Maryland

Caro, SJ Fr Robert V. Loyola Marymount Los Angelous USA

Casey Gerard NUI Dublin

Chilcott Jane

Clarke George Elliott

Cohen Lynn E., Hofstra University New York USA

Cosgrove Brian, NUI Dublin

Cotter James Finn Mount St Mary's College

Cronin Meoghan Byrne St Anselm's College US

Dau Duc Australia

Dennison Micheal Carlow College USA

Edmondson Hank Georgia College and State University USA

Egan Desmond, Poet, Artistic Director, Hopkins Literary Festival

Enozawa Kazuyoshi, Keio University, Japan

Farrini Lara Italy

Feeney SJ Fr Joseph, St Joseph's, Philadelphia, Ilinois, USA

Fennell Frank Loyola University Ilinois, USA

Ferlita SJ Fr Ernest Loyola University New Orleans USA

Gaurier Bruno Hopkins Translator France

Grandgeorge Rev. Douglas New York Poet, Clergyman

Gregg Aidan, University Southampton, UK.

Higgins Lesley, York University, Ontario.

Hotta Kimiko Japan

Howard Ben Alfred University New York

Hu Yun Yuan Beijing University China

Katajavuori Riina, Translator, Finland.

Kedzierska Aleksandra Marie Curie University Lublin Poland

Kenner Hugh, University of Georgia at Athens, Georgia, USA

Ker Ian, Oxford University, UK.

Kiernan Eamon, University of Magdeburg, Germany.

Kilpatrick Ross Stuart, Queen's Univ, Kingston, Canada.

Kyffin Irene, UK.

Lichtman Maria, Beroea College Draper USA

Lonergan Patrick Hopkins Festival Committee Newbridge

Mackey James P., Theologian Edinburgh University

Maher Eamon, Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Ireland

McCarthy OP Fr Thomas Newbridge College

McEneaney Kevin T. Writer Educator Researcher

McGonigal James, University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Millier, Brett

Milward SJ Fr Peter, Tokyo, Japan.

Moulin Joanny, Michel Montaigne, Université de Bordeaux, France.

Elaine Murphy The Gerard Manley Hopkins Society.

Murphy Russell University of Arkansas at Lttle Rock Arkansas USA

Murray Gerry, Poet Critic, Chicago

Murray Fr. Raymond , Derry, N. Ireland.

Myron Shibley, Franciscan University, Steubenville USA.

Nisbet Delia Oxford College at Emory Univ. USA

Norris Thomas St Patrick's College Maynooth

Obed Leonore US St Joseph's Philadelphia

O'Dwyer Michael National University of Ireland Maynooth

O'Hare Ciarán, Northern Ireland.

Phillips Catherine Oxford University UK

Pierson Lance, Member Hopkins Society UK

Plotkin, Cary

Cary H. , Barnard College, Columbia University, USA.

Raiger Michael Ave Maria University US

Riach Alan University of Glasgow Scotland

Samway SJ., Fr Patrick St Joseph's College Philadelphia US

Serpillo Giuseppe, Sassari University, Sardinia.

Sheeran Patrick, University of Valladolid, Spain.

Smart Robert A., Quinnipiac University, USA.

Staunton, Brendan SJ

Lecturers, Speakers in Hopkins Archive
(1987-2023)