- Gerard Manley Hopkins, selected poems
- Themes and significant ideas
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Christ's beauty
- Beauty and its purpose
- The beauty, variety and uniqueness of nature
- Christ's beauty
- Conservation and renewal of nature
- God's sovereignty
- The grace of ordinary life
- Mary as a channel of grace
- Nature as God's book
- Night, the dark night of the soul
- Serving God
- Suffering and faith
- The temptation to despair
- The ugliness of modern life
- Understanding evil in a world God has made
Gerard Manley Hopkins, selected poems Contents
- Introduction
- Timeline
- Images
- Author(s)
- The context of writing
- Religious / philosophical context Show more
- Literary context Show more
- Hopkins' beliefs about religion and poetry Show more
- Poems for study
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire Show more
- Binsey Poplars Show more
- The Blessed Virgin Mary Compared to the Air We Breathe Show more
- Carrion Comfort Show more
- Duns Scotus' Oxford Show more
- God's Grandeur Show more
- Harry Ploughman Show more
- Henry Purcell Show more
- Hurrahing in Harvest Show more
- Inversnaid Show more
- I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark Show more
- Synopsis of I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Commentary on I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Language and tone in I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Structure and versification in I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Imagery and symbolism in I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Themes in I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo Show more
- Synopsis of The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Commentary on The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Language and tone in The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Structure and versification in The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Imagery and symbolism in The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Themes in The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- The May Magnificat Show more
- My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On Show more
- Synopsis of My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Commentary on My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Language and tone in My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Structure and versification in My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Imagery and symbolism in My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Themes in My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- No Worst, There is None Show more
- Patience, Hard Thing! Show more
- Pied Beauty Show more
- The Sea and the Skylark Show more
- Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves Show more
- Spring Show more
- Spring and Fall Show more
- St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Show more
- The Starlight Night Show more
- That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection Show more
- Synopsis of That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Commentary on That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Language and tone in That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Structure and versification in That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Imagery and symbolism in That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Themes in That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord Show more
- Tom's Garland Show more
- To Seem the Stranger Show more
- To What Serves Mortal Beauty Show more
- The Windhover Show more
- The Wreck of the Deutschland Show more
- Themes and significant ideas
- Beauty and its purpose
- The beauty, variety and uniqueness of nature
- Christ's beauty
- Conservation and renewal of nature
- God's sovereignty
- The grace of ordinary life
- Mary as a channel of grace
- Nature as God's book
- Night, the dark night of the soul
- Serving God
- Suffering and faith
- The temptation to despair
- The ugliness of modern life
- Understanding evil in a world God has made
- Critical analysis
- Approaching exams and essays
- Appendices
- Resources and further reading
Christ's beauty
Christ's beauty
- in As Kingfishers Catch Fire, God's beauty is incarnational - it is lived out in human form in individuals
- elsewhere, God's beauty is seen in moments of revelation or epiphany, as in Hurrahing in Harvest, which considers the purpose of beauty
- in The Windhover, the perception of Christ's beauty is not so easily won, but does provide a resolution to the frustration arising from the wild bird's beauty.
Christ's beauty is seen primarily in the embers that ‘gash gold-vermilion'. In his death, the apparent ugliness of human suffering is ennobled to something far more beautiful, because his suffering is totally altruistic and sacrificial.
The Bible describes God as the unique supreme being, creator and ruler of the universe.
Belief that, in the person of Jesus Christ, God became a human being.
1. The supernatural showing of some hidden truth or person; a moment of insight where new meaning is established in the belief system of a person
2. In the Bible, the name given to the last book of the New Testament, which uncovers the future.
In Western Christianity the festival of Epiphany, observed on the sixth of January, celebrates the showing of Christ to the Gentiles, in the coming of the Magi to see the child Jesus.
Title (eventually used as name) given to Jesus, refering to an anointed person set apart for a special task such as a king.
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