Volume 51, Number 7 · April 29, 2004
A Passionate Clamor
By Brad Leithauser
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
edited by Norman H. MacKenzie
Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 545 pp. (1990; out of print)
The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins
edited by Humphry House and Graham Storey
Oxford University Press, 579 pp., (1959; out of print)
The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges
edited with notes and an introduction by Claude Colleer Abbott
Oxford University Press,322 pp. (1935; out of print)
Of the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins it might be said that he's difficult only if you try to understand him. A reader might reasonably choose not to. Certainly there are moments—as when you hit a phrase like 'Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling'—whose passionate clamor makes any cool search for meaning look finicky and small-minded.
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