Ignatian Inscape and Instress in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty,” “God’s Grandeur,” “The Starlight Night,” and “The Windhover”: Hopkins’s Movement toward Ignatius by Way of Walter Pater

This essay discusses Gerard Manley Hopkin’s notions of inscape and instress, examining their early expressions during Hopkins’s time as a student at and recent alumnus of Balliol College, Oxford, their subsequent development amid Hopkins’s career as a Jesuit novice and priest, and their manifestatio...

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Published in:Religions (Basel, Switzerland ) Switzerland ), 2018-02, Vol.9 (2), p.49
Main Author: Urban, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Conclusion
Gerard Manley Hopkins
God’s Grandeur
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889)
Ignatius of Loyola
inscape
instress
Literary criticism
Pater, Walter (1839-1894)
Pied Beauty
Poetry
Religious literature
Sonnets
Spirituality
The Renaissance
The Starlight Night
The Windhover
Walter Pater
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Summary:This essay discusses Gerard Manley Hopkin’s notions of inscape and instress, examining their early expressions during Hopkins’s time as a student at and recent alumnus of Balliol College, Oxford, their subsequent development amid Hopkins’s career as a Jesuit novice and priest, and their manifestation in four sonnets composed in 1877. Attention is paid throughout to the likely influence of Hopkins’s Balliol tutor, Walter Pater, as well as the influence of Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises upon Hopkins’s presentation of inscape and instress in his poems.
ISSN:2077-1444
2077-1444
DOI:10.3390/rel9020049