Austin Warren (essay date 1948)
SOURCE: "Instress of Inscape," in Hopkins: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Geoffrey H. Hartman, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966, pp. 168-77.
[Warren was an American educator and literary critic with a special interest in theology and church history. In the following essay which was originally published in 1948, he explores the defining characteristics of Hopkins's middle poems, emphasizing his penchant for "the sensuous, the concrete, and the particular."]
The early Hopkins follows Keats and the "medieval...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©1997 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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