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Article: Genius loci: placing place in Gerard Manley Hopkins.(Critical essay)
- Article from:
- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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ABSTRACT
Genius loci: Placing Place in Gerard Manley Hopkins by Malcolm Hardman Key to Hopkins is his precise sense of place--including landscape, speech patterns, and the origins of poetic vocabulary. He shares a sense of cosmic geography with Boethius and Abelard, wrestles with the Roman legacy of territorial absolutism, deploying possible antagonists in the Jesuit cause--Dante, Pascal, Tennyson--under the moderating influence of Augustine and Newman; draws on the Faust legend with the aid of Goethe (and Marlowe), also classical archetypes from (Chapman's) Homer, Vergil, Ovid, equally with contemporaries such as Ruskin and C. Rossetti; and his triune meditation ...