Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Visual World

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Catherine Phillips (, Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Downing College, University of Cambridge)

Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Visual World

Catherine Phillips (, Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Downing College, University of Cambridge)

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Oxford University Press
01 November 2007

Gerard Manley Hopkins initially planned to become a poet-artist. For five years he trained his eye, learned about contemporary art and architecture, and made friends in the Pre-Raphaelite circle. In her fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Catherine Phillips, whose knowledge of Hopkins's poems is expert, uses letters, new archival material, and contemporary publications to reconstruct the visual world Hopkins knew between 1862 and 1889, and especially in the 1860s, with its illustrated journals, art exhibitions, Gothic architecture, photographic shows, and changing art criticism.

Phillips identifies three artistic contexts for the Hopkins's life: his childhood circle of artistic relatives who were important in shaping his early vision; his friends at university and the criticism he absorbed while there that inflected his view as a young man; and the mature religious beliefs which came to govern his understanding of a visual world interconnected with an eternal one.

With chapters devoted to Hopkins own drawings, and to visual theories of the time, Phillips is able to suggests fresh links between this visual world and the startling originality of Hopkins's mature writing that will alter radically our understanding of Hopkins's practice as a poet.

By: Catherine Phillips ( Fellow and Director of Studies in English Downing College University of Cambridge)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 212mm, Width: 144mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 576g
ISBN: 9780199230808
ISBN 10: 0199230803
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 01 November 2007
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Visual World

a meticulously researched, well written and accessible study that will attract the interest of both general and specialist readers, offering to each several suggestive lines of inquiry relating to both Hopkins and the larger field of Victorian visual cultures. Daniel Brown, Review English Studies Probably the world's foremost Hopkins text-scholar, Catherine Phillips here shows herself an astute art critic with a good eye, a touch of wit, and a gift for clear summary. In turn, Gerard Manley Hopkins glistens even more brightly than before. Joseph J. Feeney, S.J.