Gerard Manley Hopkins in University College Dublin - 6 October, 1886
from Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Coventry Patmore, 6. Oct. 1886, page 142:
...I grant in Barnes [William Barnes, the Dorset dialect poet] an unusual independence and originality, due partly to his circumstances.... His rhythms are charming and most characteristic.... I have set tunes to two of them which appear to me very suitable to the words and as if drawn out of them, and one I have harmonised and got today played; but I can never succeed with piano music, for the piano cannot really execute independent parts, as I make mine; indeed my pianist said to me, Your music dates from a time before the piano was invented. However two schoolboys sang the air; which went … more >>
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Gerard Manley Hopkins, Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Coventry Patmore, 6. Oct. 1886. In Gerald Roberts (ed.), Selected prose (Oxford, 1980), p. 142. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1407248250687 accessed: 3 December, 2024
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Date/Time | 6 October, 1886 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others |
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Tue, 05 Aug 2014 15:17:30 +0100