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Article: Hopkins in Ireland.(Book Review)
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Hopkins in Ireland. By Norman White. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2002. xviii + 217 pp. 39.95 [pounds sterling]; E52 (pbk 16.99 [pounds sterling]; E22). ISBN: 1-900621-71-1 (pbk 1-900621-72-x).
The cover of Hopkins in Ireland is strikingly black, relieved only by the poet's pale face (his fair hair blackened), by small white letters for title and author, and by blue-grey mottling at a corner. Norman White's view is similarly dark as he studies Gerard Manley Hopkins's Irish years, 1884-89.
White, the prize-winning author of Hopkins: A Literary Biography (1992), here reconceives his biography, focusing not on events but on mental states ('the ...