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Hopkins's poetics of speech sound : sprung rhythm, lettering, inscape /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wimsatt, James I.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, ©2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Hopkins's manifesto
  • 'poetry and verse'
  • Sprung rhythm: the music of speech
  • Sprung rhythm: the music of verse
  • Lettering: rhyme 'widely' understood
  • 'Inscape' and poetic meaning
  • Poetry as the language of the body
  • Conclusion: 'The music of his mind'
  • Hopkins's poetry and his poetics.