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Article: Hopkins, the self, and God.
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- National Review
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- June 19, 1987
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Hopkins, the Self and God
by Walter J.Ong, SJ (University of Toronto, 180 pp., $20)
HAD IT BEEN up to his fellow Jesuits,the life and work--the incredible lyric flights, the acute observation of nature, the poetic experiments in sound and stress--of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) might have come and gone known only to the poet himself, and to God. Unpublished in his lifetime, Hopkins's incomparable poetry was given to the world by a non-Catholic admirer who discreetly anthologized a few poems in 1893, and then published a relatively complete edition in 1918. Ever since, commentators, both Jesuit and non-Jesuit, have made up handsomely for previous ...