Sequences of Phrase and Feeling in “The Windhover”

Gerard Manley Hopkins distinguished and approved “sequences of feeling and phrase” in his friend Robert Bridges’s sonnets. A close reading of “The Windhover” reveals Hopkins’s own use of these sequences with a remarkable shift between the octave, developed by a series of adverbial and adjectival par...

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Main Author: Cotter, James Finn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Religion and the arts
Year: 2018, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 488-500
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Hopkins, Gerard Manley 1844-1889, The windhover / Discipleship of Christ
Further subjects:B Hopkins sequences of feeling and phrase sonnet “Windhover” buckle Christian
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