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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... kind is merely the language of verse as distinct from that of prose , Delphic , the tongue of the Sacred Plain , I may call it , used in common by poet and poetaster . Poetry when spoken is spoken in it , but to speak it is not ...
... kind is merely the language of verse as distinct from that of prose , Delphic , the tongue of the Sacred Plain , I may call it , used in common by poet and poetaster . Poetry when spoken is spoken in it , but to speak it is not ...
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... kind , is it not ? ( I do not think that kind goes far : it expresses passion but not feeling , much less character . This I say in general or of Swinburne in particular . Swinburne's genius is astonishing , but it will , I think only ...
... kind , is it not ? ( I do not think that kind goes far : it expresses passion but not feeling , much less character . This I say in general or of Swinburne in particular . Swinburne's genius is astonishing , but it will , I think only ...
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... kind of Adam and falls and also a kind of Second Adam and is crucified . I will write more hereafter . I had not meant Mr. Patmore to know I wrote poetry , but since it has come naturally and unavoidably about there is no more to be ...
... kind of Adam and falls and also a kind of Second Adam and is crucified . I will write more hereafter . I had not meant Mr. Patmore to know I wrote poetry , but since it has come naturally and unavoidably about there is no more to be ...
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