Monasterevin Annual Hopkins Festival

Presented by Monasterevin Hopkins Society

FRIDAY JULY 29th

Venue: Moore Abbey, The Baronial Hall

7.30 pm Inaugural Paper: Professor R.K.R. (Kelsey) Thornton

’Peanuts’: The Making of the Collected Hopkins

This paper will look at some highlights and make some observations on editing Hopkins’s work for the OUP ‘Complete Works’.

8.30 pm Moore Abbey Concert

Phillip Scott-Tenor

With Piano Accompaniment

Concert Admission: €10.00

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SATURDAY JULY 30TH

Venue: Moore Abbey: The Baronial Hall

10.00 am: Hopkins’s Energetic Anxiety: Niamh Brown

This paper will consider Hopkins’s writing in the light of nineteenth-century developments of the laws of thermodynamics. It will explore his attempts to reconcile a finite universe with an eternal God.

11.00 am: Coffee

11.30 am: Productive Emotion in Hopkins’s Diary: Dr Anne-Marie Millim

This paper argues that Hopkins’s diaristic writing can be seen as a strategy of making his personal desires productive by turning them into the praise of God and his creatures.

12.30-1.45pm: Lunch

2.00pm: From Dawn to Dusk: Versions of Nature in Hopkins and Thomas Hardy: Professor Brian Cosgrove

Hopkins’s Christian belief, as in his celebration of the "Cosmic Christ" in "The Windhover" is less representative of Victorian poetry rather than Hardy’s lack of faith. "The Darkling Thrush", written towards the end of the Victorian era, is more typical of a culture in which the term "agnostic" was first introduced(in 1869).

After this paper we depart for Monasterevin House where Hopkins spent vacations as a guest of the Cassidy family for the Poetry Reading.

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Venue: Monasterevin House, Presentation Generalate, Main St, Monasterevin

(By kind permission of the Presentation Sisters)

3.30 pm: Poetry Reading: Richard W. Halperin

Richard W. Halperin’s most recent volume of poetry is Quiet in a Quiet House. It concerns people and places of the past. Nature is interrupted by keening, laughter and rants. Memory is an important theme and people are presented as souls.

My Favourite Hopkins Poem:

After Richard’s reading, you are invited to read your favourite Hopkins poem.

Please see: www.monasterevinhopkinssociety.org

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