Shows
The Shipwrack-Harvest14 | The May MagnificatEver the naturalist and supernaturalist, Hopkins considers how the month of May is seasonally suited to the New Mother of All the Living.
2019-05-2508 minThe Shipwrack-Harvest13 | The Bugler's First CommunionIt does Hopkins, and all of us, good to behold the Eucharistic Lord Whose Presence feeds the devotion and ideals of young people.
2019-05-1408 minThe Shipwrack-Harvest12 | The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We BreatheAs air conveys the light, and every sound and sight, so Mary conveys the palatable, eternal Son
2019-05-0513 minThe Shipwrack-HarvestJust the Poems, Volume the FirstFor those who want to be spared the substandard commentary, here are the recitations of the first 10 poems considered in the podcast.
2019-04-3011 minThe Shipwrack-Harvest10 | That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire...I am all at once what Christ is, since He was what I am...immortal diamond.
2019-04-2706 minThe Shipwrack-Harvest9 | The WindhoverHopkins is seized by a bird in flight, therein perceiving the beauteous, victorious Christ.
2019-04-2006 min2019-04-1303 minThe Shipwrack-Harvest7 | “My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On”For Jack’s sake, give yourself a break—and try not to think too much about it!
2019-04-0707 minThe Shipwrack-Harvest5 | “Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice”The poetic amplification of, “Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em,” this work exhorts us to make liturgy of our life.
2019-03-3111 minThe Shipwrack-Harvest6 | “God’s Grandeur”“Nature is never spent”: In this poem Hopkins acknowledges divine sovereignty over industrialization.
2019-03-3007 minThe Shipwrack-Harvest4 | Felix RandalHopkins elegizes a blacksmith, reflecting on the changes in the man’s life and on the pastoral care relationship they had forged.
2019-03-1604 minThe Shipwrack-Harvest3 | ‘Justus Quidem Tu Es’Another of Hopkins' "Sonnets of Desolation," reflecting on how futility exists alongside fertility.
2019-03-0909 minThe Shipwrack-Harvest2 | “To Seem the Stranger”Recitation of, and reflection upon, one of Hopkins’ so-called “Sonnets of Desolation.”
2019-03-0303 minThe Shipwrack-Harvest1 | 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire'As good a poem as any to commence this journey into the works of G. M. Hopkins.
2019-02-2305 min
The Shipwrack-Harvest0 | PreliminariesIn which I proffer my project of presenting the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
2019-02-2203 min