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reviewed by Christy Isinger Many novels could be written about the life and work of Catholic poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Ron Hansen’s Exiles entwines the religious life and struggles of Hopkins with the five heroic nuns who lost their lives in a shipwreck and became the inspiration of Hopkins’ great poem, The Wreck of the [...]
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 [...]
reviewed by John Murphy How Fiction Works is a presuming title for a slim little book, made more conspicuous by a chapter called “A Brief History of Consciousness.” Oh, is that all? But the book’s author is James Wood, the New Yorker’s perspicacious literary critic, and his Preface quickly allays any fears of gassy pretension [...]
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