Hopkins' chiasmus: stanza 1 of "The Wreck of the Deutschland".(Gerard Manley Hopkins)(Critical Essay) From: Victorian Poetry | Date: December 22, 2001| Author: Beidler, Paul G. | COPYRIGHT 2001 West Virginia University Press, University of West Virginia. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

PAUL G. BEIDLER *

But the important part played by parallelism of expression in our poetry is not so well known: I think it will surprise anyone when first pointed out. (Gerard Manley Hopkins, "On the Origin of Beauty") (1)

The passage beyond language requires language or rather a text as a place for the trace of a step that is not (present) elsewhere. (Jacques Derrida, "At This Very Moment In This Work Here I am") (2)

"Can you bind the chains of t...