Tag Archives: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Lose Yourself Inside This Soft World

Be mindful of the world, Mary Oliver tells us in “Mindful,” a poem that echoes Wordsworth and Hopkins.

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The Transfiguration’s Green Promise

Christian environmental scholar Gatta believes the Transfiguration story offers a religious paradigm for environmentalists.

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St. Francis: Made for Beauty

St. Francis radically changed the way we see beauty and ourselves in relationship to beauty.

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Holy Ghost: Warm Breast and Bright Wings

Hopkins’s “God’s Grandeur” captures the magnificent but intimate moment when the Holy Spirit enters us.

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Tough Lives Need Poetry’s Toughness

A new book on the psychology of life-changing lit has alerted me to some great passages.

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A World Charged with God’s Grandeur

Hopkins captures associates the Holy Spirit with the coming of spring, where we reconnect with nature’s beauty.

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Shafts of Golden Light

Easter Sunday For Easter I offer up two April poems that work as a before and after. First, Rainer Maria Rilke speaks of the “slumbering silence” before everything bursts into flower. Then William Carlos William describes that bursting as almost too much to bear. First the breathless anticipation, then the flowering. In the Rilke poem, […]

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June Love, Simple and Entire

For a June poem, here’s Richard Wilbur reminiscing about young love.

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How to Keep Beauty from Vanishing Away

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo” works as a Lenten meditation on the beauty of God’s grace.

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