From the Summer 1944 issue.
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 the other, to say nothing of his irrelevant theory of prosody. The non-Catholic reader—especially the non-Christian reader—is timid or hostile in the presence of Hopkins’ faith and doctrine. He is beset with “mnemonic irrelevance” and stirred to a thousand acts of undemanded vigilance and depreciation which inevitably distort the pattern and texture of the poems.
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