Publication at Protestant Theological Faculty |
2017
Abstract
This article examines the use made by English Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) of images of landscape. It first gives a brief summary of Hopkins' ideas of inscape and instress, and then through three poems, "As kingfishers catch fire", "Ribblesdale", and "No worst", it shows how Hopkins uses the external landscape to talk about the human condition before God.
The article demonstrates that for Hopkins the human being, created by God to praise, reverence and serve the creator, is embodied in a wider creation that has the same end.
