World as Word: The Incarnational Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Date/Time
Date(s) - December 4, 2014
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Location
Regent College Chapel

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A Reading of the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins 

WORLD AS WORD: 
The Incarnational Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
WORLD AS WORD: 
The Incarnational Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
 
Richard Austin, a British actor who has spent much of his life studying and performing the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, will be presenting Hopkins’s work in a free public reading at 4:30 in the  Regent chapel  on Thursday, Dec. 4
 
“The World is charged with the grandeur of God”
 
 “God’s word uttered in himself is Christ the Word; uttered outside himself it is the World.”
 
[Mary] . . .Gave God’s infinity
Dwindled to infancy
Welcome in womb and breast,
Birth, milk, and all the rest. . . 
 
 

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