Hopkins's Poetics of Speech Sound : : Sprung Rhythm, Lettering, Inscape / / James I. Wimsatt.

Although virtually unknown in his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844?1889) is counted today among the great nineteenth-century poets. His poetry was collected and published posthumously by his friend Robert Bridges in 1917, and subsequently Hopkins?s reputation flowered, though more as a modern w...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2006
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Hopkins's Manifesto - 'Poetry and Verse'
  • 1. Sprung Rhythm: The Music of Speech
  • 2. Sprung Rhythm: The Music of Verse
  • 3. Lettering: Rhyme 'Widely' Understood
  • 4. 'Inscape' and Poetic Meaning
  • 5. Poetry as the Language of the Body
  • Conclusion: 'The Music of His Mind' - Hopkins's Poetry and His Poetics
  • Works Cited
  • Index