“AND WHAT DOES ANYTHING AT ALL MATTER?”: Asceticism and the Hermeneutics of Comfort in Hopkins’s Terrible Sonnets
On one account, the life and work of Gerard Manley Hopkins reveal Catholic asceticism as a grim, life-denying regimen, a form of ethical extremism inimical to the poet’s psychological comfort and his creativity. In Hopkins’s latter years, runs the logic, stringent self-denial conduced to depression...
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Brill
2014
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2014, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Pages: 325-348 |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Terrible Sonnets
asceticism
Tractarianism
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