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In September of last year I wrote a piece for Godspy on Ron Hansen’s Exiles a haunting and beautifully written meditation on priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and the composition of one of his masterworks, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” about a shipwreck that took the lives of five Franciscan nuns in 1875. Hansen’s earlier novel, [...]
From Michael Dirda’s Washington Post review of a new biography of the Catholic poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, written by Paul Mariani: “There have been several previous biographies of Hopkins, including a fine one by Robert Bernard Martin, an eminent scholar of Victorian poetry. But Mariani’s possesses three great strengths: 1) Mariani has lived with Hopkins’s [...]
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