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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Gerard Manley Hopkins : [religious poems]
'I?m also doing a series of four-part songs for Peter & his Round-table singers to "first-perform" at the Aeolian Hall on November 24th. I?ve done four so far ? fairly extended, all to religious words by Gerald [sic] Manley Hopkins - & there?ll probably be two more.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: Book
Gerard Manley Hopkins : [manuscripts]
Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopkins manuscripts; & sat looking at them with that gigantic grasshopper Aldous [Huxley] folded up in a chair close by.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Manuscript: Unknown
Gerard Manley Hopkins : [poems]
'What I gather from the few poems of Hopkins that I have read is that the passion in his verse is predominantly intellectual and has a tortured quality about it; indicative almost of an unnatural constriction of the body: and this may be so, as Hopkins was a Jesuit priest.'
