ENGL200B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Aestheticism, Epithet
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Wrote at a time when there was an emphasis on bringing aestheticism back to anglicanism (e. g. intricate buildings and pleasurable music) Converted to catholicism from anglicanism (against the popular movement of the time) Moved to ireland, and felt lost from his culture, but was able to be openly catholic. The only reason we have hopkins" poems is because he sent them to friends, and one friend kept them and published them after he died. Technically progressive poems that threw everyone off, yet were impactful on t. s. eliot and other famous poets. Radical recombining of words that are wrapped together, but when pulled apart also have meaning. God"s grandeur will flame out, like shining from shook foil [tin foil] (2) crinkled, small, broken flashes of light; a different way of seeing god"s grandeur (post-romantic) Oil holy oil (e. g. baptism), industry oil. The grim world of industry man"s smudge and smell (smoke) (7)
