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Author Higgins, Lesley

Title Oxford Essays and Notes 1863-1868 : Oxford Essays and Notes 1863-1868
Published Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (393 pages)
Series The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins ; v. 4
Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Contents List of Illustrations; Chronology; Introduction; Earliest Academic Records; Ascribing Dates to the Notebooks; The Construction and Production of Knowledge; Textual Traces and Memories; Being 'Manly' Together at Oxford; The 'Acts' and 'Character' of a Mind; Revisiting and Revisioning Oxford; Chronology of Hopkins's Oxford and Birmingham Years; Notes on Hopkins's Tutors; Inside Balliol; The Oxford System; Academic Resources in the 1860s; Aesthetic Opportunities; Editorial Notes; Principles of Transcription and Translation; Citing Other Works by Hopkins
Poems and Poetry Fragments by HopkinsManuscripts; OXFORD ESSAYS AND NOTES; D.I Essays; D.I.1 An Explanation and criticism of Subject, Predicate, Copula and Attribute, with an especial reference to the import of propositions; D.I.2 Distinguish between the clearness and distinctness of concepts and state the method by which each is attained; D.I.3 On cumulative and chain evidence; D.I.4 Distinguish Induction from Example, Colligation of facts and other processes with which it has been confounded; D.I.5 On the rise of Greek Prose-writing; D.I.6 On the signs of health and decay in the arts
D. II Essays -- Etc. D. II. 1 Credit and the causes of commercial crises; D. II. 2 Authenticity: why do we believe some things in ancient writers and not others?; D. II. 3 Poetic Diction; D. II. 4 The Sophists; D. II. 5 The position of Plato to the Greek world; D. II. 6 The Life of Socrates; D. IV A Platonic Dialogue; D. IV. 1 On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialogue; D.V Essays. -- Sculpture, etc.; D.V.1 On the true idea and excellence of sculpture; D.V.2 Is history governed by general laws?; D.V.3 On the Rights and Duties of Belligerents and Neutrals; D.V.4 On Representation
D.V.5 On the nature and use of moneyD. VI Essays; D. VI. 1 Is the difference between a priori and a posteriori truth one of degree only or of kind?; D. VI. 2 Causation; D. VI. 3 How far may a common tendency be traced in all pre-Socratic philosophy?; D. VI. 4 Account of the dialogue of Plato's Republic fr. the end of the introduction to the beginning of the discussion of mythology (II, x-xvi); D. VI. 5 The Connection of Mythology and Philosophy; D. VI. 6 The contrast between the older and the newer order of the world as seen in Caste; D. VI. 7 Translation of Philebus, 15D
D. VI. 8 The Education of the Philosopher as set forth in bk. VII of Plato's Commonwealth with the exact service rendered by each science as far as the introduction of dialecticD. III Essays for W.H. Pater, Esq.; D. III. 1 The origin of our moral ideas; D. III. 2 Plato's view of the connection of art and education; D. III. 3 The Pagan and Christian virtues; D. III. 4 The relations of Plato's Dialectic to modern logic and metaphysics; D. III. 5 Shew cases in wh. acts of apprehension apparently simple are largely influenced by the imagination
D. III. 6 The history and mutual connection in ancient ethics of the following questions -- Can virtue be taught? Are virtue and vice severally voluntary and involuntary?
Summary Gerard Manley Hopkins, one of the great English poets, was also a masterful writer of prose. This new volume features, for the first time, the complete set of essays that he composed while studying at Oxford and during his early teaching career. Topics range from the ethics of Plato and Aristotle to questions of political economy and voting rights. - ;The first of eight volumes of Hopkins's Collected Works to be published, Oxford Essays and Notes presents a remarkable cache of previously unpublished papers, including forty-five essays which Hopkins produced during his undergraduate career at O
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Subject Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 fast
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191515880
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