Catholic Predilections in the Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Seamus Heaney

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" Catholic Predilections in the Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Seamus Heaney "
Liu Jiong

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081439
Doc. No	:	LA125068
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156852910X494439‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Liu Jiong
Title & Author	:	Catholic Predilections in the Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Seamus Heaney [Article]\ Liu Jiong
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2010
Volume/ Issue Number	:	14/3
Page No	:	267–296
Abstract	:	Seamus Heaney has reiterated the importance of Gerard Manley Hopkins in shaping his own poetic voice. This essay studies the way Hopkins’s and Heaney’s poetics are related to their Catholic formation. While their sacramental approaches to language and their ideas of grace and self-discipline result in similar linguistic and formal features in their poems, the two poets’ different understandings of the temporality of the world/Word also gives rise to the contrast between Hopkins’s poetic rendering of dynamic, variegated existence and Heaney’s vision of a realm of “verbless” purity. Based on an understanding of the world as everoccurring Incarnation, Hopkins’s poems often foreground a dialogic, transgressive element, trying to capture the vivifying principle of the Word, whereas Heaney’s anxiety to override the contingencies of time gradually lures him to a visionary space where time is momentarily suspended and actions frozen. Seamus Heaney has reiterated the importance of Gerard Manley Hopkins in shaping his own poetic voice. This essay studies the way Hopkins’s and Heaney’s poetics are related to their Catholic formation. While their sacramental approaches to language and their ideas of grace and self-discipline result in similar linguistic and formal features in their poems, the two poets’ different understandings of the temporality of the world/Word also gives rise to the contrast between Hopkins’s poetic rendering of dynamic, variegated existence and Heaney’s vision of a realm of “verbless” purity. Based on an understanding of the world as everoccurring Incarnation, Hopkins’s poems often foreground a dialogic, transgressive element, trying to capture the vivifying principle of the Word, whereas Heaney’s anxiety to override the contingencies of time gradually lures him to a visionary space where time is momentarily suspended and actions frozen.
Descriptor	:	Catholicism
Descriptor	:	discipline
Descriptor	:	Gerard Manley Hopkins
Descriptor	:	Seamus Heaney
Descriptor	:	the body of language
Descriptor	:	the Living Word
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156852910X494439‬