The Fire that Breaks: Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Poetic Legacies

Daniel Westover is author of R. S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography (University of Wales Press, 2011) and co-editor of The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins (Clemson University Press, 2016). Daniel earned an MFA from McNeese State University and a PhD from the University of Wales, Bangor. He lives in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he is Associate Professor of English at East Tennessee State University.

Thomas Alan Holmes, a professor of English at East Tennessee State University, specializes in Appalachian and Southern literature. He is co-editor of Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture (Lexington Books) and Jeff Daniel Marion: Poet on the Holston (University of Tennessee Press). His research and creative work have appeared in such journals as Louisiana Literature, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Connecticut Review, Appalachian Heritage, Blue Mesa Review, and Appalachian Journal.