I have a paper that must discuss how the poetry by George Manley Hopkins returns to a Wordsworthian sensibility concerning nature, God and the self. So far the only poems we have discussed by Wordsworth are The world is too mush with us, tintern abbey and I wandered lonely as a cloud. Regarding Hopkins poems we have discussed God's Grandeur, The Windhover, and Pied Beauty. I have trouble explicating some of these poems and was wondering if anyone had any links to sites that have explained the poems so that I might be able to understand them better. Also any other help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you guys!

There are lots of resources on the web, including these:

[www.victorianweb.org] />
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[www.ipl.org] />
[www.sparknotes.com] />

Les

Thanks for the heads up Les!

Um, wot's a "Wordsworthian sensibility"?

The question implies that poetry moved away from such a concept, that is, and Hopkins returned to it.

Yeah, I have heard of the Age of Sensibility, but I don't usually think of Wordsworth when I see the term.

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More like Samuel Johnson, I would think:

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Wordsworth I think of as being a poet of Romanticism:

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So, perhaps the question involves a return to Wordsworthian romanticism?

Last, was manly Gerard even influenced at all by wordy Willy ? Your call.

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My own personal take on Hopkins and Wordsworth is that WW was much more a man of the Victorian world, a naturist to be sure, but at least aware of his surroundings. Hopkins reads like a religious zealot more akin to Donne and Pope than to his contemporaries.


Les