Gerard Manley Hopkins and the song of songs.

From: Victorian Poetry | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Virkar, Aakanksha J. | Copyright information

Although Hopkins' biblical and devotional themes in "The Wreck of the Deutschland" (1876) have been extensively examined, there has been little discussion of the central importance to the poem of the Song of Songs and its tradition of related commentary. The Song famously portrays what has been read as an allegory of Christ's relationship with the Church, the Virgin Mary, and the individual soul, and a single article by James Finn Cotter focuses on this last interpretation to chart...

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