PRAYER AND PIETY IN THE POEMS OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS: The Landscape of a Soul (Hard Cover)
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| Author: | Dellicarpini, John | |
| Year: | 1998 | |
| Pages: | 148 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-8380-2 978- 0-7734-8380-4 | |
| Price: | $139.95 + shipping | |
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Prayer, like any discipline, is a learned experience from parental guidance in one's early years to spiritual
direction and mentoring later. Some pray professionally, like cloistered
religious whose primary responsibility it is to appeal to God for the world and
to consecrate each moment with holiness; these religious men and women do
perhaps the most important work on earth. Nonetheless every person requires
moments of serenity in which to lift the mind and heart to a higher power-in
praise, thanksgiving, or petition when confronted with life's complications.
The simple acknowledgment of God at a meeting, a computer terminal, or a
kitchen sink is a prayer. Note that the elemental definition of prayer-the
lifting of the mind and heart to God-says nothing about what to say or where
to say it. Prayer may be whispered in a car as well as a cathedral, a mall as
well as a meadow. What it does say is that prayer involves one's intellect and
emotions-one's total being.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword .
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One - The Mary Prayers
Ad Mariam
Rosa Mystica
The May Magnificat
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe
Chapter Two - The Communion Prayers
Barnfloor and Winepress
Easter Communion
Easter
The Bugler's First Communion
Chapter Three - The Prayers of Desolation
"My prayers must meet a brazen heaven"
(Carrion Comfort)
"I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day"
"No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief'
"To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life"
"My own heart let me more have pity on; let"
"Patience, hard thing! The hard thing but to pray"
Nondum
"The shepherd's brow fronting forked lightning"
Chapter Four - The Prayers of Spiritual Wrecking
The Loss of the Eurydice
The Wreck of the Deutsch/and
Chapter Five - The Prayers of Celebration
The Starlight Night
God's Grandeur
Spring
Pied Beauty
Hurrahing in Harvest
In the Valley of the Elwy
Chapter Six - The Prayers of Spiritual Perfection
The Half-way House
The Habit of Perfection
"Myselfunholy, from myselfunholy"
"Let me be to Thee as the circling bird"
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord ..
"As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"
The Candle Indoors
"Thou art indeed just, Lord, ifl contend"
Chapter Seven - The Prayers of Resurrection
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection
Conclusion
Bibliography
Foreword .
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One - The Mary Prayers
Ad Mariam
Rosa Mystica
The May Magnificat
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe
Chapter Two - The Communion Prayers
Barnfloor and Winepress
Easter Communion
Easter
The Bugler's First Communion
Chapter Three - The Prayers of Desolation
"My prayers must meet a brazen heaven"
(Carrion Comfort)
"I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day"
"No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief'
"To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life"
"My own heart let me more have pity on; let"
"Patience, hard thing! The hard thing but to pray"
Nondum
"The shepherd's brow fronting forked lightning"
Chapter Four - The Prayers of Spiritual Wrecking
The Loss of the Eurydice
The Wreck of the Deutsch/and
Chapter Five - The Prayers of Celebration
The Starlight Night
God's Grandeur
Spring
Pied Beauty
Hurrahing in Harvest
In the Valley of the Elwy
Chapter Six - The Prayers of Spiritual Perfection
The Half-way House
The Habit of Perfection
"Myselfunholy, from myselfunholy"
"Let me be to Thee as the circling bird"
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord ..
"As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"
The Candle Indoors
"Thou art indeed just, Lord, ifl contend"
Chapter Seven - The Prayers of Resurrection
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection
Conclusion
Bibliography