English Literature Essays – Gerard Manley Hopkins
In light of the critics’ comments discuss Gerard Manley Hopkins’ presentation of spirtual grief and despair, with reference to the ‘sonnets of desolation’. Gerard Manley Hopkins was always fascinated by the unique nature of personal thought and experience. As W. H. Gardner explained, Hopkins’ ideal was a poem, a work of art, which was ‘beautiful to inviduation.’ He used language as a way of dipping […]