With authority and sensitivity Plotkin traces the close relationship between Hopkins s poetry and the theories of language suggested in his Journals and expounded by Victorian philologists such as Max Muller and George Marsh.
Plotkin seeks to determine what changed Hopkins s perception of language between the writing of such early poems as "The Habit of Perfection" and "Nondum" (1866) and his creation of The Wreck of the Deutschland (187576). Did the language of the ode, and of Hopkins s mature poetry generally, arise as spontaneously as it appears to have done, or does...
With authority and sensitivity Plotkin traces the close relationship between Hopkins s poetry and the theories of language suggested in his Jour...
