"Goldengrove unleaving": Hopkins' "Spring and Fall," Christina Rossetti's "Mirrors of Life and Death," and the politics of inclusion.(Gerard Manley Hopkins)(essay)(Victorian poetry studies)(Critical essay)

From: Victorian Poetry | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: Nixon, Jude V. | Copyright information

(For Isobel Armstrong)

The now quite familiar argument for the inspiration behind Hopkins' "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child" asserts that lines from the poem describing Margaret's poignant response to the falling leaves may have been derived from George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss. (1) As the argument goes, the little girl at the novel's opening, whether Maggie Tulliver or Eliot's authorial persona, becomes Hopkins' Margaret, both of whom lament the all-too-soon dem...

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