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Tables of Contents for Gerard Manley Hopkins
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction
xv
Acknowledgements
xxxvi
Chronology
xxxvii
Note on the Text
xxxix
POETRY
The Escorial
1
5
Aeschylus: Prometheus Desmotes
6
1
Il Mystico
7
4
A windy day in summer
11
1
A fragment of anything you like
11
1
A Vision of the Mermaids
11
4
Winter with the Gulf Stream
15
1
Spring and Death
16
1
(Fragments)
17
1
Fragments of Pilate
18
3
`She schools the flighty pupils of her eyes'
21
1
Richard
21
1
A Soliloquy of One of the Spies left in the Wilderness
21
2
The Lover's Stars
23
1
`During the eastering of untainted morns,'
24
1
`---Hill, / Heaven and every field, are still'
24
1
`Distance / Dappled with diminish'd trees'
25
1
The peacock's eye
25
1
Love preparing to fly
25
1
Barnfloor and Winepress
25
1
New Readings
26
1
`He hath abolished the old drouth,'
27
1
Heaven-Haven
27
1
`I must hunt down the prize'
28
1
`Why should their foolish bands, their hopeless hearses'
28
1
`Why if it be so, for the dismal morn'
28
1
`Or else their cooings came from bays of trees,'
29
1
`It was a hard thing to undo this knot.'
29
1
`Glimmer'd along the square-cut steep.'
29
1
`Late I fell in the ecstacy'
30
1
`Think of an opening page illumined'
30
1
`Miss Story's character! too much you ask,'
30
1
`Her prime of life---cut down too soon'
31
1
`Did Helen steal my love from me?'
31
1
(Woods in Spring)
32
1
`Like shuttles fleet the clouds, and after'
32
1
(Epigrams)
32
2
Io
34
1
(Fragments)
34
1
The rainbow
35
1
`---Yes for a time they held as well'
35
1
Fragments of Floris in Italy
36
4
(Fragments)
Stars
39
1
They came/Next to meadows
40
1
`Dewy fields in the morning under the sun'
40
1
`---I am like a slip of comet,'
40
1
`No, they are come; their horn is lifted up;'
41
1
`Now I am minded to take pipe in hind'
41
1
A Voice from the World
42
4
`The cold whip-adder unespied'
46
1
(Fragments)
47
1
For a Picture of Saint Dorothea
48
1
`Proved Etherege prudish, selfish, hypocrite, heartless,'
48
1
Fragments of Richard
49
2
`All as that moth call'd Underwing, alighted,'
51
1
The Queen's Crowning
51
5
`Tomorrow meet you? O not tomorrow'
56
1
Fragment of Stephen and Barberie
56
1
`Boughs being pruned, birds preened, show more fair;'
57
1
`A silver scarce-call-silver gloss'
57
1
`I hear a noise of waters drawn away,'
57
1
(Dawn)
58
1
`When eyes that cast about the heights of heaven'
58
1
The Summer Malison
59
1
St. Thecla
59
1
Easter Communion
60
1
`From any hedgerow, any copse,'
61
1
`O Death, Death, He is come.'
61
1
`A basket broad of woven white rods'
61
1
(Fragments)
61
1
`Love me as I lone thee. O double sweet!'
62
1
To Oxford
62
1
`Where art thou friend, whom I shall never see,'
63
1
`Bellisle! that is a fabling name, but we'
63
1
``Confirmed beauty will not bear a stress;---'
63
1
The Beginning of the End
64
1
The Alchemist in the City
65
2
`But what indeed is ask'd of me?'
67
1
`Myself unholy, from myself unholy'
67
1
To Oxford
68
1
`See how Spring opens with disabling cold,'
68
1
Continuation of R. Garnett's Nix
69
1
`A noise of falls I am possessed by'
70
1
`O what a silence is this wilderness!'
70
1
`Mothers are doubtless happier for their babes'
71
1
Daphne
71
1
Fragments of Castara Victrix
72
2
`My prayers must meet a brazen heaven'
74
1
Shakspere
74
1
`Trees by their yield'
74
1
`Let me be to Thee as the circling bird,'
75
1
The Half-way House
76
1
A Complaint
76
1
`Moonless darkness stands between.'
77
1
`The earth and heaven, so little known,'
77
1
`As it fell upon a day'
78
1
`In the staring darkness'
78
1
`The stars were packed so close that night'
79
1
The Nightingale
79
1
The Habit of Perfection
80
1
Nondum
81
2
Easter
83
1
Lines for a Picture of St. Dorothea
84
1
Summa
85
1
Jesu Dulcis Memoria
86
1
Inundatio Oxoniana
87
1
Ecquis binas
88
1
Elegiacs: Tristi tu, memini
88
1
`Alget honos frondum silvis dependitus, alget'
88
1
`Quo rubeant dulcesve rosae vel pomifer aestas'
88
1
Elegiacs: after The Convent Threshold
89
1
St. Dorothea (lines for a picture)
90
2
`Not kind! to freeze me with forecast,'
92
1
Horace: Persicos odi, puer, apparatus
92
1
Horace: Odi profanum volgus et arceo
92
2
The Elopement
94
1
Oratio Patris Condren
95
1
Ad Matrem Virginem
95
2
`Haec te jubent salvere, quod possunt, loca'
97
1
(May Lines)
98
1
Ad Mariam
98
2
O Deus, ego amo te
100
1
Rosa Mystica
100
2
`Quique haec membra malis vis esse obnoxia multis'
102
1
On St. Winefred
102
1
In S. Winefridam
103
1
Fragments on St. Winefred
`Iam si rite sequor prisci vestigia facti'
103
1
`Quin etiam nostros non aspernata labores'
103
1
`Atque tribus primum quod flumen fontibus exit'
103
1
`Miror surgentem per puram Oriona noctem,'
104
1
S. Thomae Aquinatis Rhythmus
104
2
Author's Preface
106
4
The Wreck of the Deutschland
110
9
The Silver Jubilee
119
1
Ad Episcopum Salopiensem
120
1
Cywydd
120
1
Moonrise June 19 1876
121
1
The Woodlark
122
1
In Theclam Virginem
123
1
Penmaen Pool
123
2
Ochenaid Sant Francis Xavier
125
1
(Margaret Clitheroe)
125
2
`Hope holds to Christ the mind's own mirror out'
127
1
God's Grandeur
128
1
The Starlight Night
128
1
`The dark-out Lucifer detesting this'
129
1
`As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;'
129
1
Ad Rev. Patrem Fratrem Thomam Burke O.P.
129
1
Spring
130
1
The Sea and the Skylark
131
1
In the Valley of the Elwy
131
1
The Windhover
132
1
Pied Beauty
132
1
The Caged Skylark
133
1
`To him who ever thought with love of me'
133
1
Hurrahing in Harvest
134
1
The Lantern out of Doors
134
1
The Loss of the Eurydice
135
4
The May Magnificat
139
1
`O where is it, the wilderness,'
140
1
`Denis,'
140
1
`The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down'
141
1
`He mightbe slow and something feckless first,'
141
1
`What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been'
141
1
Duns Scotus's Oxford
142
1
Binsey Poplars
142
1
Henry Purcell
143
1
`Repeat that, repeat,'
144
1
The Candle Indoors
144
1
The Handsome Heart
144
1
`How all is one way wrought!' (On a Piece of Music)
145
1
Cheery Beggar
146
1
The Bugler's First Communion
146
2
Andromeda
148
1
Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice
148
1
Peace
149
1
At the Wedding March
150
1
Felix Randal
150
1
Brothers
151
1
Spring and Fall
152
1
Milton
152
1
Inversnaid
153
1
Angelus ad virginem
153
2
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
155
1
Ribblesdale
156
1
A Trio of Triolets
157
1
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe
158
3
`The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less;'
161
1
from St. Winefred's Well
161
5
`To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life'
166
1
`I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.'
166
1
`Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail'
167
1
`No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,'
167
1
To what serves Mortal Beauty?
167
1
(Carrion Comfort)
168
1
(The Soldier)
168
1
`Thee, God, I come from, to thee go,'
169
1
`Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray,'
170
1
`My own heart let me more have pity on; let'
170
1
To his Watch
171
1
Songs from Shakespeare, in Latin and Greek
171
3
Incomplete Latin version of `In all things beautiful'
174
1
Robert Bridges
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves
175
1
On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People
176
1
Harry Ploughman
177
1
(Ashboughs)
177
1
Tom's Garland
178
1
Epithalamion
179
1
`The sea took pity: it interposed with doom:'
180
1
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection
180
1
`What shall I do for the land that bred me,'
181
1
In honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
182
1
`Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'
183
1
`The shepherd's brow, fronting forked lightning, owns'
183
1
To R. B.
184
1
PROSE
Early Diaries (1863--6)
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122
Journal From Hopkins's notes written
while an undergraduate at Oxford (1863--7)
191
1
in 1867--8
192
1
during a holiday in Switzerland (1868)
193
4
while at the Novitiate (1869-0)
197
5
at Stonyhurst (1870--3)
202
16
at Roehampton, London (1873-)
218
3
at St Beuno's, Wales (187)
221
2
Letters
to his father (16 Oct [1866])
223
3
to his mother (Christmas Eve, 1875)
226
1
from a letter to Robert Bridges (21 Aug. 1877)
227
2
to Robert Bridges (2 April I878)
229
1
from a letter to Robert Bridges (13 May 1878)
230
2
to Robert Bridges (30 May 1878)
232
2
postcard to Robert Bridges (June 1878)
234
1
to Robert Bridges (15 Feb. 1879)
234
1
to Robert Bridges (26 May 1879)
235
2
from a letter to Robert Bridges (14 Aug. 1879)
237
3
from a letter to Robert Bridges (25 Oct. 1879)
240
1
from a letter to R. W. Dixon (22 Dec. 1880)
241
3
from a letter to Robert Bridges (3 April 1881)
244
1
to Robert Bridges (16 Sept. 1881)
245
1
from a letter to R. W. Dixon (29 Oct. 1881)
246
4
from a letter to R. W. Dixon (1 Dec. 1881)
250
4
to Robert Bridges (18 Oct. 1882)
254
3
from a letter to Robert Bridges (4 Jan. 1883)
257
2
to Robert Bridges (7 March 1884)
259
1
to Robert Bridges (21 Aug. 1884)
260
2
to his sister, Kate Hopkins (9 Dec. 1884)
262
1
to Robert Bridges (1 Sept. 1885)
263
1
from a letter to Robert Bridges (13 Oct. 1886)
264
1
from a letter to Robert Bridges (28 Oct. 1886)
265
1
from a letter to Robert Bridges (7 Feb. 1887)
266
2
from a letter to Robert Bridges (30 July 1887)
268
2
from a letter to Robert Bridges (12 Jan. 1888)
270
1
to Robert Bridges (29 April 1889)
271
4
Sermons and Devotional Writings
from a sermon for 5 Oct. 1879 (Bedford Leigh) `on the Rosary'
275
1
from a sermon for 23 Nov. 1879 (Bedford Leigh) on Luke 2: 33
275
3
from a sermon for 25 Oct. 1880 `on Divine Providence and the Guardian Angels'
278
3
Notes on the Spiritual Exercises: the Principle or Foundation
281
2
Notes on Suarez' De Mysteriis Vitae Christi
283
4
Notes on the Creation and Redemption
287
3
Further notes on the Spiritual Exercises: the Principle or Foundation
290
2
Notes on the Spiritual Exercises: the Meditation on Hell
292
3
Notes on the Spiritual Exercises: the Meditation on Death
295
6
Notes written during a retreat at Beaumont (3--10 Sept. 1883)
301
1
Notes written during a retreat at St Stanislaus' College, Tullabeg (1--6 Jan. 1888)
302
5
Notes
307
94
Further Reading
401
4
Appendix A: The Convent Threshold
405
4
Christina Rossetti
Appendix B: The Nix
409
2
Richard Garnett
Appendix C: Consule Jones
411
6
Index of Short Titles and First Lines
417
10
Index to Prose
427