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The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Volume VII: The Dublin Notebook (Hardcover, New)
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The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Volume VII: The Dublin Notebook (Hardcover, New)
Series: Collected Works Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Hopkins's 'Dublin Notebook' provides intimate and rare access to
the Jesuit poet's private, poetic, religious, and academic thoughts
and words during his final years in Dublin. In February 1884,
Hopkins moved to Dublin from England to become a Professor of
Classics at University College (entrusted to the Jesuits in 1883)
and a Fellow at the recently-established Royal University of
Ireland, an examining institution. He lived at UC's St. Stephen's
Green campus until 8 June 1889, when he died of typhoid. The
'Dublin Notebook' is a unique repository of personal memoranda,
drafts of poems, lecture outlines, spiritual meditation notes, and
academic notes, and sheds new light on the circumstances that
produced Hopkins's 'Sonnets of Desolation' in the mid-1880s. The
contents include pages in which he tallied examination marks and
commented on students' performances; intermittent musical jottings;
lists of correspondents to whom he owed letters; attendance
records; drafts of a short biography for publication; a commentary
on Cicero; and preliminary versions of 'Sibyl's Leaves', one of his
most exceptional poems.
This edition, Volume VII in the Collected Works of Gerard Manley
Hopkins, provides readers with a digitized facsimile of the
manuscript, a detailed transcription of each page, and scholarly
resources such as a historical and cultural introduction to
Hopkins's Dublin years; an analysis of the notebook's contents; the
editors' explanation of the manuscript and its challenges;
translations of and citations for all classical quotations; and
thorough annotations (including transcriptions of his musical
compositions). Other resources include a Biographical Register;
documents related to Hopkins's academic appointments; sample
examinations that he set for the Royal University; and edited
versions of his study of Cicero's 'On Duty' and his biographical
notice of Richard Watson Dixion, the Pre-Raphaelite poet.
The 'Dublin Notebook' sheds new light on Hopkins's life and inner
torments, his wide-ranging artistic talents (and musical
aspirations), his involvement in Ireland's vexed 'troubles' in the
late nineteenth century, his harrowing spiritual and emotional
condition, and the busy life of a burdened Classics professor.
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