Tag: Hopkins

• Reflections on 2018… ambiguous loss

  

  I am listening to the On Being podcast that features this week a conversation with Pauline Boss on the meaning of ambiguous loss and how there is a myth of closure in our cultures of impatient striving and ceaseless ambition. There does not need to be an end to grief or to loss. We have […]

  Jeff Rich

  December 15, 2018

  culture, literature

  culture, grief, Hopkins, loss, Matthew Arnold, poetry

• What I am reading… Gerard Manley Hopkins

  

  Here, listen to the uncanny insight… 75 The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less; The times are winter, watch, a world undone: They waste, they wither worse; they as they run Or bring more or more blazon man’s distress. And I not help. Nor word now of success: All is from wreck, here, […]

  Jeff Rich

  December 10, 2018

  literature, What I am reading

  Hopkins, literature, poetry, writing

• Immortal diamond

  Gerard Manley Hopkins was a poet I encountered on my parents’ shelves as a child. A small paperback of his poems in a Penguin edition, perhaps from the 1960s, was one of the poetry books met early in life. Unlike many of the poems, which now I remember reading with my father, this book belonged […]

  Jeff Rich

  July 29, 2016

  literature

  Hopkins, poetry