Mine Own Familiar Friend

The Relationship between Gerard Hopkins and Robert Bridges

William Adamson

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781800794856
• eBook ISBN: 9781800794863
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Education General
• Index: Literature

Mine Own Familiar Friend adds a new dimension to Hopkins Studies through its exploration of the complex and sometimes confounding friendship between the Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Hopkins and the editor of his first collected works, the poet and critic Robert Bridges. The divide between the two men is evident in almost every sphere of their lives, in their approach to poetry, reading, criticism and language. Based upon the primary texts of the letters, poetry and critical writings of the two men, the book is aimed at both an academic and a more generalist audience: Hopkins scholars and those readers of Hopkins's poetry who may want to know more about this unique modernist poet whose collected works were only published, thanks to Bridges, some twenty-nine years after his death.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: An Odd Couple: Gerard Hopkins and Robert Bridges
• Chapter 2: The Man from Petrograd: Bridges and Hopkins’s Collected Poems of 1918
• Chapter 3: With a Friend Like that … : Robert Bridges’s “Preface to Notes” in Hopkins’s Poems, 1918
• Chapter 4: “Lagging Lines”: Gerard Hopkins’s “To R.B.”
• Chapter 5 “Upon the Yellow Sands”: Bridges’s Prefatory Sonnet
• Chapter 6: Critical Minds: The Literary Criticism of Hopkins and Bridges
• Chapter 7: “Presumptious Jugglery”: Hopkins’s and Bridges’s Critical Views on Each Other’s Works
• Chapter 8: “The Limits of My World”: Two Approaches to Language
• Chapter 9: Grig and Grumble: Conclusion
• A Brief Chronology of Hopkins’s Life
• A Brief Chronology of Bridges’s Life
• Bibliography
• Index