Another bird? counterpoint in "The Windhover".(Gerard Manley Hopkins)

From: Victorian Poetry | Date: December 22, 2002| Author: Hollis, Hilda | Copyright information

DENNIS SOBOLEV RECENTLY COMMENTED THAT GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS IS a more marginal figure than in previous generations because current criticism has understood Hopkins to believe "in the immanence of meaning in language." (1) Hillis Miller is a critic frequently cited as an exponent of this position. Claiming that Hopkins transforms his "early experience of the absence of God... into what is, in Victorian poetry, an almost unique sense of the immanence of God in nature and in the huma...

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