Selected LettersOxford University Press, 1991 - 343 páginas Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) has long been admired as a letterwriter for the vividness, sense of humor, and honesty with which he expressed his opinions. Although he died young, his life overlapped with some of the great poets--Wordsworth, Tennyson, Yeats, Robert Bridges--of the Victorian era, and his comments on them are astute and revealing. This collection, drawn from the three volumes edited by C.C. Abbott, covers the whole period of Hopkins's life, adding some important and lesser-known letters that have only recently come to light. Ranging in date from his school days to his final years in Dublin, the letters include correspondence with his German master at Highgate, a rare letter written during the course of his priestly duties, one to an Irish colleague on the political situation in Ireland, a late letter to his brother Everard on art and poetry, and various other letters to his Oxford friends, to John Henry Newman and Coventry Patmore, and to his family. Together they reveal a man of great warmth who had a wonderful perception of natural beauty, and deep religious ardor. |
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... Bridges he afterwards had regrets about not working or being gossipy . It seems that Bridges's own outspokenness led Hop- kins to speak his mind too openly . The letters suggest that it was Bridges who later called from him the widest ...
... Bridges he afterwards had regrets about not working or being gossipy . It seems that Bridges's own outspokenness led Hop- kins to speak his mind too openly . The letters suggest that it was Bridges who later called from him the widest ...
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... Bridges , ' since my last postcard the good Canon has sent me a “ note of admiration " and makes the characteristic ... Bridges's closest friends from their schooldays at Eton . Muirhead had to leave Oxford without taking a degree ...
... Bridges , ' since my last postcard the good Canon has sent me a “ note of admiration " and makes the characteristic ... Bridges's closest friends from their schooldays at Eton . Muirhead had to leave Oxford without taking a degree ...
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... Bridges's writes , ' My objection was not to his telling , but to his narration being sometimes in a vein untrue to his character as required by his actions , the two being incompatible and bad as art . RB ' schooner . Bridges : ' This ...
... Bridges's writes , ' My objection was not to his telling , but to his narration being sometimes in a vein untrue to his character as required by his actions , the two being incompatible and bad as art . RB ' schooner . Bridges : ' This ...
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