The Victorian Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins found in religious discipline, and released in his poetry, the tremendous power at the heart of human language. In Created to Praise , Margaret Ellsberg traces the poet's development, arguing that Hopkins's use of a specifically sacramental ideal of language, a poetic diction that celebrates particularity in nature, allows the poet/priest to unite the vocabularies of both vocations and achieve a voice perfectly pitched at praise.
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The Victorian Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins found in religious discipline, and released in his poetry, the tremendous power at the heart of human language. In Created to Praise , Margaret Ellsberg traces the poet's development, arguing that Hopkins's use of a specifically sacramental ideal of language, a poetic diction that celebrates particularity in nature, allows the poet/priest to unite the vocabularies of both vocations and achieve a voice perfectly pitched at praise.
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Like New. [Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author on title page. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. 145 pages; 22 cm. *Autographed by author. * "A brilliant, lucid, and essential introduction to much of what is original and unique in Hopkin's firecharged language. Margaret Ellsberg's Created to Praise ought to be required reading for anyone interested in the imaginative brilliance of this wonderful poet."-Paul Mariani, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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