"GIVING BEAUTY BACK TO BEAUTY'S SELF AND GIVER"
POETRY OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
Tuesdays, 6:30 PM (July 21, July 28, August 4, August 11)
Harvard Catholic Center/St. Paul’s, Cambridge, MA
Group led by Harvard Catholic Forum Graduate Fellow Jordan Vanderpool
Take up Gerard Manly Hopkins’ challenge to "give beauty back to beauty’s self and giver," using Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) ed. Catherine Phillips. Expected syllabus:
Tues 7/21: "Pied Beauty"; "God's Grandeur"; "The Windhover"
Tues 7/28: "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"; "The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe"; "Binsey Poplars"; "Bluebell;" Diary entry, May 1870; Diary entry Feb 24, 1873
Tues 8/3: "Patience, Hard Thing:"; "I Wake and I Feel"; "No Worst"; "Carrion Comfort"; "My Own Heart"; "Thou Art Indeed Just"; Jan. 1889 Dublin Retreat Notes
Tues 8/11: "Spring and Fall"; "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo"; 1874 Diary entry on leaves falling
Participants should bring this book to the sessions; available at the St. Paul's Gift Shop & online.
OPEN TO ALL - REGISTRATION REQUESTED
IN-PERSON ONLY
This reading group is supported by a grant from the Lumen Christi Institute with funding from the John Templeton Foundation (Grant #63614).