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Gerard Manley Hopkins Terrible
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Gerard Manley Hopkins' "terrible" Sonnets
In the mid 1800's a very spiritual poet was born. Gerard Manley Hopkins was born July 28, 1844 to Manley and Catherine (Smith) Hopkins, the first of their nine children (Drabble 473). His parents were High Church Anglicans, and his father had just publish ....
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....longer reached God" (Benzel 371).
Hopkins life-long best friend Robert Bridges received several letters from Hopkins while he wrote the "terrible" sonnets. Hopkins wrote to Bridges that the sonnets "came to him like inspirations unbidden and against my will" (Leavis 5296). Hopkins saw in his poems the fragmentation of his capacity to represent his Christian vision adequately. Hopkins considered this poetry the "wrong" kind of poetry because the sonnets did not "manifest that penetrating delin.... |
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