English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1331 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Captions available
The idea
Gerard Manley Hopkins, a convert who became a Jesuit priest, developed "inscape," the distinctive design of each thing, after Duns Scotus, and "sprung rhythm," which counts stresses and lets unstressed syllables vary. His poems were published only in nineteen eighteen, by Robert Bridges.
In practice
Inscape, sprung rhythm, late publication.
Where people slip
Hopkins was published in the twentieth century.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it · Sources for English Literature