Hopkins Variations; - Standing Round a Waterfall
Price: $37.00
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher: Saint Joseph's University Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN: 9780916101398
Book ID: 20
Description:
315 pages + preface and introduction | 8.75 x 5.75 inches
Warm, personal, original, Hopkins Variations offers fifty-five perspectives on the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Opening with an essay by Seamus Heaney, it offers the views of poets, actors, translators, scholars, theologians, an artist, a composer, a novelist, and a philosopher from thirteen countries. The essays present Hopkins as healer, wordlover, birdlover, musician, truthteller, poetic influence, creative theologian, naturalist, travel writer, dream-figure, Jesuit, friend, religious teacher, dialoguist with the Jewish midrash — even a swimmer, a carousel-rider, a teacher of feminism, and a hopegiver for Communism-weary Poles.
Editors Joaquin Kuhn (St. Michael's College, University of Toronto) and Joseph J. Feeney, S.J. (Saint Joseph's University) are co-editors of The Hopkins Quarterly.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Lionel Adey, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Michael E. Allsop, Presentation College, South Dakota, USA
Brian Arkins, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Richard Austin, Actor, Saffron Walden, Essex, England
Uwe Bõker, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Ewa Borkowska, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland
Jerome Bump, University of Texas?ustin, USA
Mariaconcetta Costantini, Università "G. d'Annunzio," Pescara, Italy
James Finn Cotter, Mount Saint Mary College, New York, USA
Renzo D'Agnillo, Università "G. d'Annunzio," Pescara, Italy
Andrew Sean Davidson, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
David A. Downes, California State University, Chico, USA
Desmond Egan, Poet, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Kazuyoshi Enozawa, Honan College, Nagano, Japan
Joseph J. Feeney, S.J., Saint Joseph's University, Pennsylvania, USA
Francis L. Fennell, Loyola University Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ernest Ferlita, S.J., Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
John Ferns, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Howard W. Fulweiler, University of Missouri?olumbia, USA
Peter Gale, Actor, London, England
Bruno Gaurier, Administrator and Translator, Paris, France
Ron Hansen, Novelist, Santa Clara University, California, USA
Seamus Heaney, Poet, Dublin, Ireland
Alan Heuser, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
Lesley J. Higgins, York University, Ontario, Canada
Tomiko Hirata, S.P.C., Shirayuri College, Tokyo, Japan
Margaret Johnson, Scholar, Willetton, Western Australia, Australia
Joaquin Kuhn, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maria Lichtmann, Scholar, Boone, North Carolina, USA
Jeffrey Loomis, Northwest Missouri State University, USA
Norman H. MacKenzie, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada
Paul Mariani, Boston College, Massachusetts, USA
Franco Marucci, Università di Venezia Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy
Francis X. McAloon, S.J., Santa Clara University, California, USA
John McDade, S.J., Heythrop College, University of London, England
Robert McGovern, Artist, Narberth, Pennsylvania, USA
Peter Milward, S.J., Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
Michael Moore, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
Jude V. Nixon, Oakland University, Michigan, USA
Leonora Rita V. Obed, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Walter J. Ong, S.J., Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA
Catherine Phillips, Downing College, Cambridge University, England
Cary Plotkin, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA
Gerald Roberts, Scholar, Crowborough, Sussex, England
Ned Rorem, Composer, New York, New York, USA
Rachel Salmon, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Kunio Shimane, Nagoya City University, Japan
Alison G. Sulloway, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., USA
R.K.R. Thornton, University of Birmingham, England
Donald Walhout, Rockford College, Illinois, USA
Eynel Wardi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Nick Weber, Actor, Nyack, New York, USA
Norman White, University College Dublin, Ireland
Thomas A. Zaniello, Northern Kentucky University, USA
Sjaak Zonneveld, Institute of Higher European Studies, The Hague, Holland
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"Each and every one of the variations [essays] contains jewels making this book a rare pleasure."
Studies 92/366 (Dublin, Ireland)
"Hopkins Variations: Standing Round a Waterfall is a scholarly celebration of the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet who languished unknown until his death in 1889, and yet who today is considered one of Victorian England's finest crafters of verse. Brief yet insightful essays are contributed by an impressive collection of authors and concerns diverse physical, intellectual, personal, and Godly responses to Hopkins' work. Hopkins Variations is a work of impeccable collective scholarship and is highly recommended for academic library collections."
Library Bookwatch
"Assembled by Hopkins Quarterly editors, Joaquin Kuhn and Joseph Feeney, S.J., the attractive new book Hopkins Variations: Standing Round a Waterfall [...] collects reader responses to Hopkins' writings and to his documented life, from many noted Hopkins scholars. The volume also includes perspectives on Hopkins from an artist who sketched him in woodcuts (Robert McGovern); from three other poets whom he influenced (Seamus Haney, Desmond Egan, and Bruno Gaurier); from a composer who set his words to music (Ned Rorem); from actors who have performed his life-events and or his creative texts (Richard Austin, Peter Gale, Nick Weber); and from two professional theologians (Francis McAloon, S.J., and John McDade, S.J.)."
Jeffrey B. Loomis, Guide to the Year's Work
"Hopkins Variations is a collection of fifty-five essays by Hopkins devotees from thirteen countries and four continents. [...] Whatever tack the writers took, they give the reader a glorious opportunity to travel with people as they describe their own journey into the world of Hopkins, entranced by the power and beauty of his poetry. [...] Each and every one of the variations contains jewels making this book a rare pleasure."
Noel Barber, S.J., Studies
"This volume should be on every poetry-lover's shelf, not just every Hopkinsian's, for it tells us that good poetry sets off sparks that draw flames in human hearts."
Samira B. McCarthy, Hopkins Quarterly
"Hopkins died with his work almost completely unknown. He once explained his refusal to urge his superiors on the point by claiming that if the Lord 'chooses to avail himself of what I leave at his disposal, he can do so with a felicity and a success which I could never command.' This volume surely bears out the truth of that conviction. No other Jesuit has touched such a wide variety of people with a message of 'the dearest freshness deep down things.'"
Philip Endean, S.J., The Way