Moral Masochism and the Will to Resist in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

This book charts the journey of faith through the unique poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and examines how his psychological and emotional world based on the Victorian“no cross no crown,” philosophy is shattered when the pillars of his religion become untenable, leading to the descent into oblivion of “The Terrible Sonnets” where he finds his dominating all powerful God notably absent.