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98Gerard Manley Hopkins“strikes like lightnings”; l. 5), and “Pied Beauty” (with its splendidopening line—“Glory be to God for dappled things”—and its equallysplendid and emphatic closing: “Praise him”; ll. 1, 11). Indeed, thesublime seems to be one of the effects Hopkins most frequentlysought and (even more significant) most frequently achieved. Surelyhis reading of Longinus must have helped spur Hopkins’s interest insublime writing, but it was his own peculiar genius that allowed him toachieve so magnificently the undeniable effects of sublimity he soughtto convey.WORKS CITED OR CONSULTEDBender, Todd K. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Classical Background and CriticalReception of His Work. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1966.Bump, Jerome. “‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’ and the Dynamic Sublime.”ELH 41.1 (1974): 106–129.Hopkins, Gerard Manley. The Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Ed.Norman H. MacKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.Longinus. On the Sublime. Trans. W. Rhys Roberts. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1899.Raiger, Michael. “ ‘Large and Startling Figures’: The Grotesque and theSublime in the Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor.” Seeing into theLife of Things: Essays on Literature and Religious Experience. New York:Fordham University Press, 1998. 242–270.Roberts, Gerald, ed. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Critical Heritage. London:Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.Smith, Lyle H., Jr. “Beyond the Romantic Sublime: Gerard Manley Hopkins.”Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 34.3 (1982): 173–184.