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Gerard Manley Hopkins on Planet Earth
Author(s) -
Bennett, Sr. Gaymon L.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/1540-6385.00154
Subject(s) - earth (classical element) , style (visual arts) , poetry , planet , natural (archaeology) , philosophy , history , literature , astrobiology , environmental ethics , art , archaeology , astronomy , physics
Nineteenth‐century Jesuit priest and poet, Gerd Manley Hopkins (1844–89), produced poems on natural themes which were not only revolutionary for their structure and style but also disctinctive and forward‐looking for their treatment of the environment. In these poems, he presents nature as intrinsically (rather than instrumentally) valuable, God as concerned with the salvation not only of humans but of the environment, and humankind as responsible noy only for polluting the Earth but for participating in its salvation. Christian poets of the twenty‐first century need to hees and follow Hopkin's example.