Gerard Manley Hopkins  Victorian

Info

- finding at universities a cold climate for religious faith, took refuge in religious traditionalism (Horton 674)

- Anglican => Roman Catholic => Jesuit (674)

- poems marked by confident affirmation and anxious misgiving (674)

- often regarded as modern rather than Victorian poet (674)

- extreme condensation; startling comparisons; multiple meanings; strong stress meter; partial, internal, and run-on rhyme (674)

- oddity and poetic power appealed to rebellious postwar generation of writers who valued difficulty for its own sake (674)

Works

- "Pied Beauty" - praises God as Creator (674)

- "God's Grandeur" - justifies irregularity of author's style (674)

Citation

Horton, Ronald A. British Literature for Christian Schools. Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 1992.