{"id":118,"date":"2018-07-09T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2021-03-29T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T17:52:07","slug":"gerard-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/index.php\/gerard-hopkins\/","title":{"rendered":"GM Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a9 National Portrait Gallery, London<\/p>\n

Gerard Manley Hopkins\u00a0by George Giberne, 1863<\/p>\n

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I remember a house where all were good<\/div>\n
To me, God knows, deserving no such thing:<\/div>\n
Comforting smell breathed at very entering,<\/div>\n
Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood.<\/div>\n
That cordial air made those kind people a hood<\/div>\n
All over, as a bevy of eggs the mothering wing<\/div>\n
Will, or mild nights the new morsels of Spring:<\/div>\n
Why, it seemed of course; seemed of right it should.<\/div>\n
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Alfred William Garrett; William Alexander Comyn Macfarlane; Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/p>\n

by Thomas C. Bayfield,\u00a01866,\u00a0\u00a9 National Portrait Gallery, London<\/p>\n

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I greatly admire the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins (who has a connection with Liverpool Hope University) and co-organised the ‘Hopkins at Hope’ event held on 28 April 2015.<\/p>\n

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FELIX RANDAL the farrier, O he is dead then? my duty all ended,
\nWho have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome
\nPining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it and some
\nFatal four disorders, fleshed there, all contended?<\/p>\n

Sickness broke him. Impatient he cursed at first, but mended
\nBeing anointed and all; though a heavenlier heart began some
\nMonths earlier, since I had our sweet reprieve and ransom
\nTendered to him. Ah well, God rest him all road ever he offended!<\/p>\n

This seeing the sick endears them to us, us too it endears.
\nMy tongue had taught thee comfort, touch had quenched thy tears,
\nThy tears that touched my heart, child, Felix, poor Felix Randal;<\/p>\n

How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years,
\nWhen thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers,
\nDidst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal!<\/p>\n

‘Liverpool, April 28, 1880.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Some places associated with Hopkins.<\/p>\n

The Thames at Binsey:<\/p>\n

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St Aloysius, Oxford:\"\"\"\" \"\"<\/p>\n

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St Francis Xavier, Liverpool:<\/p>\n

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Stonyhurst:<\/p>\n

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Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!<\/div>\n
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!<\/div>\n
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!<\/div>\n
Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves’-eyes!<\/div>\n
The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies!<\/div>\n
Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare!<\/div>\n
Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare!<\/div>\n
Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize.<\/div>\n
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  \u00a9 National Portrait Gallery, London Gerard Manley Hopkins\u00a0by George Giberne, 1863 * I remember a house where all were good To me, God knows, deserving no such thing: Comforting smell breathed at very entering, Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood. That cordial air made those kind people a hood All over, … <\/p>\n

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