1. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins - To what extent do you agree with Robert Bridges view that his poetry is "some of the most musical ever written" Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the greatest 19th-century poets of religion, of nature, and of inner anguish. In his view of nature, the world is like a book written by God. ... For example in "Carrion Comfort" one of his "Sonnets of Desolation" whereby his music is less exuberant and more intense than in previous poems, he creates a sequence of repeated negatives that help reinforce a feeling of struggle, of a grim determination to hang on to his life -...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate