By James I. Wimsatt
Although nearly unknown in his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) is counted this day one of the nice nineteenth-century poets. His poetry was once gathered and released posthumously by means of his buddy Robert Bridges in 1917, and thus Hopkins's attractiveness flowered, notwithstanding extra as a latest author than as Victorian, and extremely little as a poetic theorist. but the physique of Hopkins's serious writing finds sharp perception into the topic of poetics, and provides an cutting edge concept that locates basic poetic which means in 'figures of speech sound.'
These 'figures of speech sound' give you the concentration for James I. Wimsatt's erudite and unique research. Drawing from Hopkins's diaries, letters, pupil essays, and correspondence with poet-friends, Wimsatt illuminates Hopkins's conception that the sound of poetic language consists of an emotional, no longer simply logical and grammatical, which means. Wimsatt concentrates his learn on Hopkins's writings approximately 'sprung rhythm,' 'lettering,' and 'inscape,' - his coinages - and makes ample connection with Hopkins's verse, displaying the way it exemplifies his language concept. A well-researched and hugely distinct book, Hopkins's Poetics of Speech Sound asserts significant importance for a comparatively ignored element of this crucial poet's writings.
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