NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS Gerard Manley Hopkins The name of Gerard Man-ley Hopkins has been added to the company of English poets (and an occasional outsider like Longfellow) enshrined in the Poets' Corner of...
...His life was lonesome and desperate, and was touchingly recalled by another Jesuit, Father Peter Levi, at the enshrinement service: "Was he one of those who overcome, or was be one of the defeated...
...A child is born in the mad inn of the world...
...The others...
...Daniel Berrigan's Christmas greetings to friends detail his latest "witness" and feelings of moral outrage: "On Nov...
...I see the Statue of Liberty...
...john deedy...
...But after a hundred years, the editors are still rationalizing, still consoling themselves...
...He embraced Death with fervor...
...When he died, God's work was complete in him...
...We carried banners and costumes concealed on our persons...
...four in specter of death black, one in a resplendent Uncle Sam outfit...
...It is simply that in many private poems and writings of his we can sense a profound and God-given liberty...
...a successful life detergent and death hunter...
...It is said to be only the third song to be so honored...
...The one unwise blunder," they wrote, "has gained for The Month more notoriety than all the distinguished articles it has since published...
...If there is something convincing in his poetry, his drawings, in all his writings, it convinces inti-mately, as if we knew him more completely than we know each other...
...His business is death and death is good business...
...The Bicentennial Song While England is enshrining genius, Congress is exalting schmaltz...
...We were arrested and all of us will be tried . . . ; trespass, destroying gov't property...
...NEWS & VIEWS Gerard Manley Hopkins The name of Gerard Man-ley Hopkins has been added to the company of English poets (and an occasional outsider like Longfellow) enshrined in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey -the closest place in this world, by some opinion, to a heaven-haven for poets who used the English language, beginning with Chaucer, "the grandfather of the tribe...
...The current issue of The Month contains an apology for its literary goof, one of the greatest in the history of publishing...
...He must have been terribly vulnerable and strangely complete as a human being...
...We wanted to dramatize the current nuclear death race in which our government is Number One Downhill Runner...
...25,13 of us post-americans entered the White House with the usual throng of tourists, but with a slightly different idea in mind...
...At the behest of Rep...
...Something in us would like to say, Thank you, criminal sirs, but no thank you...
...I see the little people, just like me, Saying, 'Keep America Free . . .' Saying, 'Keep America Free.' Rep...
...I see the wings of a hawk and a dove...
...Hopkins lived from 1844 to 1889, entered Catholicism under the influence of Newman, and took the priesthood as a Jesuit...
...Meanwhile, others of us threw aside jackets and stood revealed, funereal and celebratory...
...Once through the tour we assembled on the south lawn...
...Free from the right wing...
...Free from the left wing...
...I see the little people, just like me, Saying, 'Keep America Free.' I see the Pittsburgh steel and the Kansas wheat...
...He could feel the sap drying up in the branches of bis life, he could hear the Spirit of God crying out in the long desert of the 19th century, he could hear the: beating of iron wings...
...As I reflect on it, our action was a message, looking toward Christmas...
...Edward J. Patten (D.-NJ...
...Small satisfaction, that...
...His slaughter, in the person of millions of children of the world, is contemplated calmly by the mad prestidigitators who have made us part of their obscene act-digging like rodents...
...Toward noon, shovels were produced and a quick dig began on the Bright House lawn...
...I see the face of God in the land I love...
...Uncle Sam and Death labored fervently, if briefly-turning up a shelter against bombs-which exactly resembled a human grave...
...Free as the eagle flying free...
...Father Hopkins wrote few hymns, nor did he preach many sermons, wonderful as they are, nor were they very successful...
...Patten had the words of the song read into the Congressional Record...
...George M. Cohan's Over There, and Irving Berlin's God Bless America...
...Appropriately enough, the enshrinement marked the centenary of Hopkins' celebrated poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland - which Hopkins first submitted to the Jesuit periodical, The Month, which, in turn, re-rejected it...
...There, some of us unfurled our messages ('The only civil defense is civil disobedience,"Digging shelters is digging graves') to the eyes of the public and the winds of heaven...
...In the conversation of his soul he spoke freely, in his understanding of every natural thing he felt very freely...
...Hopkins' place is a tablet of black stone only a few feet from the bust of the last Roman Catholic to be memorialized in the Poets' Corner-John Dryden, who died in 1700...
...Congress has proclaimed as the official song of the Bicentenary this piece of drivel by one Art Sutton (Johnny D'Arc, ASCAP) of Middle-town, NJ.: Keep America Free I see the face of God in the land I love...
...Odds and Ends -The secretary of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences, Abbe Sus-tar, suggests an intriguing possibility: the "theological recycling" of bishops...
...Nothing-neither his helpless estate nor his beauty nor his innocence of crime- nothing of these will avail, in 1975, to exempt the Christ from nuclear incineration...
...No formula offered, however...
...And all those little people, just like me, Saying, 'Keep America Free': Free from hunger, free from want, Free from misery...
...Dan Berrigan, S.J...
...Would you melt 'em down in a thurifer...
...He was obscure in his life, eccentric and personal in his habits, he suffered intensely in ways we can hardly understand and he could hardly express, he belonged to a tiny and somewhat desperate minority in religion, he was not taken seriously as a poet or a scholar, he was not let live among the Lancashire poor, whom he loved, he was tormented by scruples, he came close to despair, he died nastily and unnecessarily of typhoid...
...Sam appeared to be positively jocose...
Vol. 103 • January 1976 • No. 2
