Gerard Manley Hopkins - mid 19th Century

from Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Canon Dixon, 5 Oct. 1878, page 71:

... I quite agree with what you write about Milton. His verse as one reads it seems something necessary and eternal (so to me does Purcell's music).
cite as

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Canon Dixon, 5 Oct. 1878. In Gerald Roberts (ed.), Selected prose (Oxford, 1980), p. 71. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1406044186880 accessed: 15 November, 2024

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Jesuit, Poet
1844-1889

Experience Information

Date/Time mid 19th Century
Medium live

Originally submitted by hgb3 on Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:49:47 +0100