Hopkins, Gerald Manley : (1844-89) Victorian poet, unappreciated in his lifetime.
... only do such lines with their directly subjective suggestion require close loving attention. Even those that seem to have a purely objective reference have to be relished for their magic: Gerald Manley Hopkins's strikingly structured evocation of nineteenth-century Oxford - Towery city and branchy between towers - or Burgon's single-phrased entry into poetic immortality with his softly spe ...
... Publishing House, Calcutta, 2 nd Edition, 1950). Sri Aurobindo: An Introduction (Rao & Raghavan, Mysore, 1961). On the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952). Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Man and the Poet (Oxford University Press, London, 1948). Indian Writing in English (Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1962). The Adventure of Criticism (Asia Publishing... John, Selections from Classical Sanskrit Literature, with English translation and Notes (Luzac, Londan, 1951). Buchanan, Scott. Possibility (Kegan Paul, London, 1927). Bullett, Gerald. The English Mystics (Michael Joseph, London, 1950). Page 486 Camoens, Luis Vas De. The Lusiads, translated by William Atkinson (Tenguin Books, London, 1952). ...
... never be rejected and should be cherished if God the Fire is to come into play. In fact, the two are fused—and in poetry itself the reverie and the realising rapture are indissoluble. Has not Gerald Manley Hopkins characterised the very activity of the poetic imagination as deriving from this rapture, in that phrase of his— Sweet fire, the sire of Muse...? The Dream against which Sri Aurobindo ...
... ingredients. One is the Ambrosia that is Sri Aurobindo, the second is the Nectar that is the Mother, and the third is rather a questionable one which can be best expressed perhaps in some lines of Gerald Manley Hopkins: I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree Bitter would have me taste: the taste was me. So now you know the third ingredient. All the three ...
... Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 582 7. Ibid., Vol. 17, pp. 399-400 8. Aldous Huxley, Text and Pretext (Phoenix edn.), p. 75 9. Elizabeth Barren Browning 10. Gerald Manley Hopkins 11. William Blake 12. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, p. 1 13. Keats' Ode to a Nightingale 14. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, pp. 10,24 15. Ibid., Vol. 17, ...
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