Religious Questions in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins

3 credits · Divinity School

As contemporaries in the nineteenth century, the American poet Emily Dickinson and the English Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins forged a radical poetic grammar to express their interpretations of the Divine. By reading from the canons of these two precursors to modernism, students will place Dickinson and Hopkins in dialogue with each other and examine their innovative experiments in language. [3] Mr. Judge