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Article: Norman H. MacKenzie, Excursions in Hopkins.(Book review)
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- Victorian Newsletter
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- September 22, 2008
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Norman H. MacKenzie, Excursions in Hopkins (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's UP, 2008), pp. x + 393, $37 cb; Cary H. Plotkin, Soundings: Essays in Memory of Norman Hugh MacKenzie, 1915-2004 (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's UP, 2007), pp. xxi + 194, $37 cb; James I. Wimsatt, Hopkins' s Poetics of Speech Sound: Sprung Rhythm, Lettering, Inscape (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), pp. ix + 162, $47 cb.
Gerard Manley Hopkins's reputation has come a long way since 1912, when The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse contained fewer poems by him than by Ezra Pound. The Collected Poems did not appear until the end of 1918, and recognition was still slow until the Hopkins ...