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Gerard Manley Hopkins – angielski poeta, jezuita.

Pisarz uznawany za najwybitniejszego angielskiego poetę religijnego , prekursora nowoczesnej poezji angielskiej.

Najstarszy z ośmiorga rodzeństwa pochodził z anglikańskiej rodziny bogatego wysokiego urzędnika. Studiował filologię klasyczną na Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim. W 1866 pod wpływem Johna Henry'ego Newmana wcześniejszy działacz Ruchu Oksfordzkiego przeszedł na katolicyzm. W 1866 konwertyta wstąpił do zakonu Towarzystwa Jezusowego. Święcenia kapłańskie otrzymał w 1877 i podjął działalność duszpasterską w Anglii i Szkocji jako kaznodzieja. W tym czasie spod jego pióra wyszła seria tzw. sonetów natury. W latach 1882–1884 wykładał łacinę i grekę w Blackburn, a później filologię klasyczną w Dublinie. Podupadające zdrowie i wewnętrzne rozterki znajdują odbicie w tzw. ciemnych sonetach. Zmarł w obecności rodziców na gorączkę tyfoidalną, a jego ostatnimi słowami miały być:

Najważniejszym dziełem Hopkinsa jest poemat Katastrofa statku "Deutschland", poświęcony autentycznej katastrofie, która w tamtych czasach odbiła się szerokim echem w Wielkiej Brytanii. Tematem utworu jest kwestia wiary w Opatrzność wobec klęsk żywiołowych, w których giną niewinne ofiary. Poemat napisany jest kunsztowną strofą ośmiowersową. Poeta często używa w nim aliteracji i paronomazji. Wykorzystane środki instrumentacyjne nie są jedynie ozdobnikiem, ale pełnią ważną rolę w budowaniu znaczeniowej spójności tekstu. O formie poezji Hopkinsa pisał wielokrotnie Stanisław Barańczak. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Lipiec 1844 – 8. Czerwiec 1889   •   Natępne imiona جيرارد مانلي هوبكنز, Джерард Менли Хопкинс, 杰拉尔德·曼利·霍普金斯
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: Cytaty po angielsku

“Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.”

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" The Wreck of the Deutschland http://www.bartleby.com/122/4.html", lines 1-8
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Kontekst: Thou mastering me
God! giver of breath and bread;
World’s strand, sway of the sea;
Lord of living and dead;
Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh,
And after it almost unmade, what with dread,
Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh?
Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.

“Abel is Cain's brother and breasts they have sucked the same.”

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Gerard Manley Hopkins The Wreck of the Deutschland

"The Wreck of the Deutschland", line 160
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Hope had grown grey hairs,
Hope had mourning on,
Trenched with tears, carved with cares,
Hope was twelve hours gone.”

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Gerard Manley Hopkins The Wreck of the Deutschland

"The Wreck of the Deutschland", lines 115-118
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.”

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"The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: The Golden Echo, line 19
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.”

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Journal (19 July 1872)
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“I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour.”

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Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not…an obsolete one.”

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Letter to Robert Bridges (14 August 1879)
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“I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living.”

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Letter to Robert Bridges (18 October 1882)
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Kontekst: I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

“Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim.”

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" Pied Beauty http://www.bartleby.com/122/13.html", lines 1-3
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing, interest ceases also…”

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Letter to Robert Bridges (24 October 1883)
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Kontekst: You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing, interest ceases also... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.

“I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.
And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.”

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" Heaven-Haven http://www.bartleby.com/122/2.html", lines 1-8
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“I say more, the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Christ — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.”

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"As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame" (undated poem, c. March - April 1877)

“Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush”

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" Spring http://www.bartleby.com/122/9.html", stanza 1
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Kontekst: Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

“Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!”

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" The Starlight Night http://www.bartleby.com/122/8.html" (1877), lines 1-3
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Kontekst: Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

“Shape nothing, lips; be lovely-dumb:
It is the shut, the curfew sent
From there where all surrenders come
Which only makes you eloquent.”

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"The Habit of Perfection", lines 5 - 8
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”

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" Inversnaid http://www.bartleby.com/122/33.html, lines 13-16
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Źródło: Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Complete Poems

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed.”

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" God's Grandeur http://www.bartleby.com/122/7.html", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Elected Silence, sing to me
And beat upon my whorlèd ear,
Pipe me to pastures still and be
The music that I care to hear.”

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"The Habit of Perfection", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“What I do is me: for that I came.”

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"As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame" http://www.embodiment-of-freedom.com/persfree/hopkins.html (undated poem, c. March - April 1877) - Analysis and information regarding this poem at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Society http://www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org/lectures_2004/As_Kingfishers_analysis.html

“Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;
Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man
In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;
Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.”

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" Carrion Comfort http://www.bartleby.com/122/40.html", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, made for — things that give and mean to give God glory.”

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The Principle or Foundation

“I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.”

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Letter to Richard Watson Dixon (17 October 1881)
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“All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.”

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Journal (24 February 1873)
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“For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved, condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.”

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Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola

“It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty.”

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The Principle or Foundation

“I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
What hours, O what black hoürs we have spent
This night!”

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" I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day http://www.bartleby.com/122/45.html", lines 1-3
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“World-mothering air, air wild,
Wound with thee, in thee isled,
Fold home, fast fold thy child.”

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"The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe", lines 124-126
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“My own heart let me have more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting yet.”

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" My own heart let me have more have pity on http://www.bartleby.com/122/47.html", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“No doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness. I hope in time to have a more balanced and Miltonic style. But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in music, and design in painting, so design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of calling inscape is what I above all aim at in poetry. Now it is the virtue of design, pattern, or inscape to be distinctive, and it is the vice of distinctiveness to become queer. This vice I cannot have escaped.”

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Letter to Robert Bridges (15 February 1879)
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