Desmond Egan (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "Hopkins' Influence on Poetry," in Saving Beauty: Further Studies in Hopkins, edited by Michael E. Allsopp and David Anthony Downes, Garland Publishing, 1994, pp. 59-93.
[Egan is an Irish poet, critic, and the founder of the Hopkins Society in Ireland. In the following essay, he summarizes Hopkins's influence on several major poets.]
When we compare the lines from Tennyson's "Requiescat" (pub. 1842):
Fair is her cottage in its place
Where yon broad water sweetly slowly glides
It...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©1997 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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