Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: “Rash-Fresh, Re-Winded, New-Skein®®d Score”: The
Enduring Newness of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Daniel Westover

1 “Admire and Do Otherwise”: Gerard Manley Hopkins and
Ivor Gurney
R. K. R. Thornton
2 “Such a Mix of Beauty and Horror”: Two Modes of Modernist
Response to Hopkins
Lesley Higgins
3 Action and Repose: Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Influence in the
Poems of Elizabeth Bishop
Ben Howard
4 The One Sane Milkman, I Fear: The Complex, Abiding Influence
of Father Hopkins on John Berryman
Paul Mariani
5 Seamus Heaney’s Hopkins
Richard Rankin Russell
6 Gerard Manley Hopkins and Geoffrey Hill: A Compound Ghost
Catherine Phillips
7 “A Billion Times Told Lovelier”: Reclaiming Hopkins’s
Theological Legacy through Geoffrey Hill’s Kenotic Lens
Devon Abts
8 “Strange Elation” and a Strange Relation: Gerard Hopkins and
Caribbean Poetry
Emily Taylor Merriman
9 “Hack and Rack the Growing Green”: Gerard Manley Hopkins,
Ecotheology, and the Poetry of Denise Levertov, Pattiann Rogers,
and Martha Silano
Lynn Domina
10 “Before the Word and World became Separate”: Hopkins and
Charles Wright’s Contemplative Verse
Joe Moffett
11 “A Mix of Mineral and Grease”: Gerard Manley Hopkins and
Contemporary Appalachian Poetry
Thomas Alan Holmes
12 Hansen’s Hopkins: The Poet as Postmodern Exile
Adrian Grafe
13 An Afterword to My Visit
Joseph J. Feeney, SJ
Notes
Contributors
Index

About the Author

Daniel Westover is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English, East Tennessee State University. William Wright is Writer in Residence, University of Tennessee.

Reviews

'A perennial problem in Hopkins scholarship is that the seemingly unending process of explicating his highly idiosyncratic oeuvre has prevented a serious consideration of the formal and thematic continuities between his writings and those of his contemporaries and successors... Consequently, this collection makes a very welcome contribution to the scholarly conversation.'
A. J. Nickerson, Review 19