I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is no… - Gerard Manley Hopkins

" "
I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was a Jesuit priest and English poet whose posthumous, 20th-century fame established him among the finest Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially in regard to sprung rhythm) and his vibrant use of imagery established him as both an original and daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Hopkins

All quotes from Gerard Manley Hopkins Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Gerard Manley Hopkins:

Alfred Tennyson Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Byron John Keats William Wordsworth

Additional quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

That night, that year
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.

I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the … - Gerard Manley Hopkins

About Gerard Manley Hopkins

Also Known As

Try QuoteGPT

Additional quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Unlimited Quote Collections