Hopkins critical quotes Flashcards
John Duns on Hopkins’ inscape
“Hopkins’ inscape is also fundamentally religious: a glimpse of the inscape of a thing shows us why God created it.”
Kathleen Raine on natural scenes in Hopkins
“The image is not the sum of its parts but a living, indivisible whole.”
Michael Lackey on destruction of nature in Hopkins (applies particularly to Binsey Poplars)
To his mind, nature is now bare, not because it is bare in itself, but because humans cannot now see God’s grandeur in nature.
Deborah Frenkel on Hopkins’ despair
“a kind of wrestling with God”
Joseph Miller on experiences of the natural world
“experience not for its own sake but rather as a means of comprehending divine existence”
John Gilroy on Inversnaid and Victorian urbanisation
“a concern for the increasing threat to nature posed by the ruthless expansion of Victorian urban development”
Walker on natural imagery in No Worse
“nature becomes emblematic of private religious anguish”
RB Martin on Hopkins’ attitude to death in the Terrible Sonnets
“death may be not eternal salvation but utter and welcome annihilation”
