Relevant Religion Spring 2013

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Vanderbilt Divinity School Room 122
 9:00 - 12:00 noon

Victor Judge

Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs

 

To Rebuff the Big Wind:

Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Glory of Metaphor

The nineteenth-century English Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was endowed with a religious and poetic imagination that inspired an unprecedented expression of the soul’s yearning for intimacy with God. A precursor to literary modernism, Hopkins forged a new theological and poetic grammar for translating his reflections upon the Divine Mystery of Creation. During this lecture and discussion, we shall explicate Hopkins’ sonnet, “The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord,” as an onomatopoeic recreation in verse of the Crucifixion and Resurrection.

 

Please RSVP to 615-936-8453
Cost: General Registration $10, Student Registration $5

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