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GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
His Life through his Poetry
A Transcript of the Proposed Downloads and CD with Free Audio Excerpts
Titles
Binsey Poplars
The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe
The Bugler's First Communion
Dun Scotus's Oxford
Felix Randall
The Habit of Perfection
Harry Ploughman
Heaven Haven, a nun takes the veil
Hurrahing in Harvest
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo, Maiden's Song from St. Winefred's Well
The May Magnificat
On a Piece of Music
Pied Beauty
The Soldier
Spring and Fall: to a young child
The Starlight Night
That Nature is a Heraclitian Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
TOM'S GARLAND
The Windhover
The Woodlark
The Wreck of the Deutschland
First Lines
A bugler boy from barrack (it is over the hill
Elected Silence Sing to Me
Felix Randall the farrier, O is he dead then? My duty all ended
Glory be to God for dappled things
Hard as hurdle arms, with a broth of goldish flue
Have fair fallen, O fair, fair have fallen, so dear
How all's to one thing wrought!
How to keep - is there any, is there none such, nowhere
I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin
I have desired to go where springs not fail
I wake and feel the the fell of daark, not day
In the valley of the Elwy
Look! at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales
Margaret, are you greaving
May is Mary's month, and I
My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled
Nothing is so beautiful as spring
Repeat that repeat, repeat
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the
stooks rise
Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows, flaunt forth, then chevy on an air -
I wake and feel the the fell of dark, not day
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
Thou mastering me, God
To rise you bid me with the lark
To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life
To what serves mortal beauty dangerous; does set dancing
Tom - garlanded with squat and surly steel
Towery city and branchy between towers
Wild air, world-mothering air
The World is charged with the grandeur of God
Yes. Why do we all, seeing of a soldier, bless him? bless
You ask why can't Clarissa hold her tongue.
TRACK 1: His Early Poetry
TRACK 2: The Wreck of The Deutschland
TRACK 3: His Joyous Poetry 1
TRACK 4: His Joyous Poetry 2
TRACK 5: His Joyous Poetry 3
TRACK 6: A Lament
TRACK 7: Oxford and Instress
TRACK 8: Music 1
TRACK 9: Playfulness
TRACK 10: A Parish Priest 1
TRACK 11: Music 2
TRACK 12: Danger
TRACK 13: A Parish Priest 2
TRACK 14: A Verse Drama
TRACK 15: Our Lady
TRACK 16: Politics
TRACK 17: The Dark Night of the Soul 1
TRACK 18: The Dark Night of the Soul 2
TRACK 19: Experimentation
TRACK 20: Philosophy
TRACK 21: Triumph
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We recommend the Oxford Edition and in particular Sean Street's account of The Wreck of the Deutschland, which he was inspired to write from hearing my production of Paul Scofield's reading for BBC Radio 3. We also highly recommend Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Study of Poetic Idiosyncrasy in Relation to Poetic Tradition by Professor Helen Gardner: