Gerard Manley Hopkins :
Gerard Manley Hopkins Never saw his work published
Is considered the most innovative of the Victorian poets
Very precise and meticulous person.
Very difficult to get along with.
Came up with the idea of inscape- each being in the universe enacts its identity.
Inscape & Instress :
Inscape & Instress The individually distinctive inner structure or nature of a thing.
Man is the most “selved” being in the universe and thus recognizes the inscape of other beings (the act of instress).
Inscape & Instress :
Inscape & Instress Recognizing the inscape in others leads one to God, because the inscape is a divine creation.
Poetry was a celebration of inscape by capturing the specific identity of his subjects
Sprung Rhythm :
Sprung Rhythm Lines have a set number of stresses, but the placement is varied
Lóok at the stárs! Lóok! Look úp at the skíes!
O lóok at all the fíre- fólk sítting in the áir
The bríght bóroughs, the círcle- cítadels thére!
Dówn in the dím woods the díamond délves! The élves eyes!