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Albert Camus and Gerard Hopkins: Camus and Hopkins

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A Search for Meaning
The Outsider or Stranger is a novel by Albert Camus that explores philosophical schools of thought: existentialism, absurdism and nihilism. Camus argues in his novels that believing in human potential, rather than God we can have a meaningful life. Hopkins in the selected poems argues that there is order in the world and that this can be seen in the harmony and beauty of nature and that is proof of God's existence.

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Albert Camus
The novel 'The Stranger' also known as 'The Outsider'.

SHMOOP-THE STRANGER
Themes, characters and summary of the text

SHMOOP-QUIZ

THE CULT OF THE OUTSIDER
Article by Sean COUGLAN from the BBC. Mean, moody and alone. What is the appeal of the outsider?

THE WORLD BOOK CLUB-THE OUTSIDER
The World Book Club, discusses Albert Camus' seminal novel The Outsider with his acclaimed biographer
Oliver Todd  and Professor of French at Sheffield University, David Walker. A 55 minute talk from the Shakespear and Company bookshop in Paris

BBC- INSIDE THE OUTSIDER
Professor Andrew Hussey celebrates the controversial life and work of the globally feted French writer and philosopher, and searches out the private man behind the handsome Bogart lookalike public face.45 minute podcast.

INTERNET ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY
Albert Camus (1913-1960). A summary of his life, career and philosophy.

OTHER BOOKS BY ALBERT CAMUS

THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS- Albert Camus
This series of Spark notes takes you through a summary, themes, and characters of the novel.
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Gerard Manly Hopkins

POETS.ORG
A brief biography on Gerard Manly Hopkins.

SHMOOP
An overview and analysis of many of Hopkins' poems including Pied Beauty, God's Grandeur, Spring and Fall and the Windhover 


HOPKINS MORAL MAZE
In an extract from the 1986 Everyman documentary To Seem a Stranger, presenter John Wain reflects on Gerard Manley Hopkins' moral dilemma, attitude to the England of his day and his personal faith.
 

 

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Gerard Manley Hopkins- Portrait of a Poet
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