Response to Failure

"Response to Failure" provides a significant contribution to the existing body of literary scholarship on Gerard Manley Hopkins, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, and Dylan Thomas. The author explores the texture of autobiographical experiences of -failure- that inform the poems and the poets' responses within the intellectual, cultural, religious, and political climates of their times. Unique comparative and cross-disciplinary approaches, have been employed, including reader-response interpretation of the poems, as well as gender- and culture-centered theories of literary criticism and culture studies."