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The Fire that Breaks traces Gerard Manley Hopkins's continuing and pervasive influence among writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Not only do the essays explore responses to Hopkins by individual writers--including, among others, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, and Charles Wright--but they also examine Hopkins's substantial influence among Caribbean poets, Appalachian writers, and contemporary poets whose work lies at the intersection of ecopoetry and theology. Combining essays by the world's leading Hopkins scholars with essays by scholars from diverse fields, the essays examine both known and unexpected affinities, and The Fire that Breaks is a persistent testimony to the lasting, continuing impact of Hopkins on poetry in English.
Daniel Westover
Editor Daniel Westover is Professor of English and Chair of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University in the USA, as well as a literary critic, biographer and poet, whose poetry has appeared widely in important American journals and several anthologies. He is the author of R.S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography (University of Wales Press, 2011), one of the central texts of R S Thomas scholarship. He also contributed poetry to Imagined Greetings: Poetic Engagements with R. S. Thomas (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2013), and is the editor of a new book of scholarly essays, New Approaches to R. S. Thomas (University of Wales Press, 2026).
Thomas Alan Holmes
Thomas Alan Holmes is a professor of literature and language at East Tennessee State University.
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