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“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.”
- Source
- God's Grandeur
- Date
- 1918
Meaning of “The world is charged with the grandeur of…”
Hopkins opens by presenting the natural world as filled with divine presence, establishing the theological vision that governs the poem’s images of damage, renewal and grace.
Where does it come from?
“God’s Grandeur,” in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published, Project Gutenberg #22403. Hopkins wrote the sonnet in 1877; it was published posthumously in 1918. The statement is Christian poetic belief, not an empirical description of nature.