Atkinson, in “A God in Ruins,” uses literary fragments to explore the process of dying. She includes excerpts from Shakespeare, Blake, Hopkins, Wordsworth and others.
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.
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.
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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