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Vanderbilt University Divinity School Relevant Religion Series with Victor Judge, "To Rebuff the Big Wind: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Glory of Metaphor"

Presenter: Victor Judge, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs

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.