The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins
| By: | Feeney, Joseph J, Fr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754660057 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409474937 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Renowned Hopkins expert Joseph J. Feeney, SJ, offers a fresh take on Gerard Manley Hopkins which shakes our understanding of his poetry and his life and points towards the next phase in Hopkins studies.
While affirming the received view of Hopkins as a major poet of nature, religion, and psychology, Feeney finds a pervasive, rarely noticed playfulness by employing both the theory of play and close reading of his texts. This new Hopkins lived a playful life from childhood till death as a student who loved puns and jokes and wrote parodies, comic verse, and satires