July 1, 1944
The Analogical Mirrors
Hopkins is full of pitfalls for the unwary. There is a double difficulty: his Catholic beliefs and experience on one hand; his individual use of the resources of English on […]
July 1, 1944
The Sweet and Lovely Language
Gerard Manley Hopkins was a champion and great master of epithet. He expected poetry, including his poetry, to catch and convey vividly what eye saw and heart felt. Vivid was […]
July 1, 1944
Instress of Inscape
The early Hopkins follows Keats and the “medieval school” (as he called the Pre-Raphaelites). The latest Hopkins, who wrote the sonnets of desolation, was a poet of tense, economic austerity. […]
July 1, 1944
Editor’s Note: Gerard Manley Hopkins
The poet was born in 1844, and died in 1889; and the four essays that follow are in the nature of an anniversary tribute. These papers are not to be […]
July 1, 1944
Sprung Rhythm
A poet’s theories are not always the best guide to his poetry. Wordsworth should not be judged solely from the “Preface” to the Lyrical Ballads, nor Sidney Lanier from his […]