Perry Lorenzo

Sorry for the long delays in updating this blog. This last year has been quite busy, and the Blog has been low on the priorities. I am pla...

The next four stanza's, #s 25-28, ask and answer a question: why did the Nun call out? What is the truth of her cry? "The majesty! ...

Picking up from where we left off, at stanza #24 of Hopkins "The Wreck of the Deutschland", we have a moment of intensification an...

Gentle Readers! I regret having missed so many months of posting on this blog. I will now begin again, so that we can continue reading Hopki...

Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day Didst make thy triumph over death and sin, And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Capti...

It is the most beautiful, most profound thing written on Love since Plato's Symposium ; and it surpasses Plato, because it identifies L...

So now Hopkins gives us a long meditation on that Tall Nun, from stanza 19 through stanza 31. This is very much the climax of The Wreck of ...