GERARD M ANLE Y HOPKINS THE CRITICAL HERITAGE Edited by GERALD ROBERTS London and New York
Contents PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION XU XIU CHRONOLOGY OF HOPKINS'S LIFE 46 PRINCIPAL PUBLISHING DATES UP TO I94O 47 NOTE ON THE TEXT 48 Comments 1877-1918 1 Contemporary correspondence. 49 2 ROBERT BRIDGES, in The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, 1893 60 3 FR JOHN MacLEOD, 'The Diary of a Devoted Student of Nature', Letters and Notices, April 1906 64 4 KATHERINE BREGY, 'Gerard Hopkins, an Epitaph and an Appreciation', Catholic World, January 1909 65 5 Unsigned review of Bregy's The Poet's Chantry, Month, October 1912 69 6 [FR] G[EORGE] O'N[EILL], review of The Poet's Chantry, Studies, December 1912 70 7 F.E. BRETT YOUNG, Robert Bridges: A Critical Study, 1914 71 8 Unsigned review of The Spirit of Man, New York Times Review of Books, March 1916 72 9 GEORGE SAINTSBURY, Cambridge History of English Literature, 1916 73 10 E. BRETT YOUNG, 'The Poetry of Gerard Hopkins', Today, January 1918 74 Poems of Hopkins (1918) 11 ROBERT BRIDGES, Preface to Notes, and Notes, Poems of Hopkins, 1918 77 12 Unsigned review, Glasgow Herald, January 1919 83 13 ARTHUR CLUTTON-BROCK, unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement, January 1919 84 14 THEODORE MAYNARD, 'The Artist as Hero', New Witness, January 1919 87 vii I
15 MICHAEL HENRY, 'The Book of the Week: Sweet Discord', Everyman, February 1919 90 16 L.I. GUINEY, 'Gerard Hopkins: A Recovered Poet', Month, March 1919 93 17 Unsigned review, Saturday Westminster Gazette, March 1919 98 18 EDWARD SHANKS, unsigned review, 'The Prophet Unveiled', New Statesman, March 1919 102 19 FR GEOFFREY BLISS, unsigned review, Tablet, April 1919 106 20 F.C. MOORE, unsigned review, Spectator, May 1919 111 21 Unsigned review, Oxford Magazine, May 1919 112 22 '161', review, Methodist Recorder, May 1919 114 23 Unsigned review, Dial, May 1919,1 1 5 24 [FR] G[EORGE] O'N[EILL], review, Studies, June 1919 116 25 PETER MCBRIEN, review, Irish Rosary, June 1919 121 26 J[OHN] M[IDDLETON] M[URRY], review, Athenaeum, June 1919 123 27 HENRY A. LAPPIN, 'Gerard Hopkins and His Poetry', Catholic World, July 1919 128 28 [FR] C[LEMENT] B[ARRAUD], 'Reminiscences of Father Gerard Hopkins', Month, August 1919 129 29 The Editor, 'Fr Gerard Hopkins S.J. and his Poetry', Irish Monthly (Dublin), August 1919 131 30 FR GEORGE O'NEILL, Essays on Poetry, 1919 132 31 EDWARD SAPIR, review, Poetry, September 1921, 134 32 T.S. OMOND, English Metrists, 1921 136 33 GEORGE SHUSTER, The Catholic Spirit in Modem English Literature, 1922 137 34 ALAN PORTER, 'Difficult Beauty', Spectator, January 1923 137 35 SHANE LESLIE, Introduction, An Anthology of Catholic Poets, 1925 139 36 I.A.RICHARDS, 'Gerard Hopkins', Dial, September 1926 140 37 LAURA RIDING and ROBERT GRAVES, A Survey of Modernist Poetry, 1927 146 38 ALEC BROWN, 'Gerard Hopkins and Associative Form', Dublin Magazine, April-June 1928 149 39 I.A. RICHARDS, Practical Criticism, 1929 152 40 FR G.F. LAHEY, Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1930 161 41 ISIDOR SCHNEIDER, 'A Great Poet', Nation (New York), April 1930 163 viii
42 Unsigned review, 'A Victorian Who Has Come into Fashion', New York Times Book Review, July 1930 165 43 WILLIAM EMPSON, Seven Types of Ambiguity, 1930 166 Poems, 2nd edn (1930) 44 CHARLES WILLIAMS, Introduction, Poems of Hopkins, 1930 171 45 M[ORTON] D[AUWEN] Z[ABEL], 'Poetry as Experiment and Unity', Poetry, December 1930 176 46 'E.O.', review, Tablet, December 1930 181 47 w.j. TURNER, unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement, December 1930 183 48 MORRIS u. SCHAPPES, review, Symposium, January 1931 188 49 Unsigned review, Glasgow Herald, January 1931 195 50 Unsigned review, Nation, January 1931 195 51 w.j. TURNER, 'Some Modern Poetry', The Nineteenth Century and After, February 1931 196 52 HILDEGARDE FLANNER, review, New Republic, February 1931 203 53 GEOFFREY GRIGSON, 'A Poet of Surprise', Saturday Review, February 1931 207 54 EDWARD THOMPSON, review, Observer, February 1931 209 55 'A.L.', review, Studies, March 1931 211 56 MALCOLM COWLEY, 'Resurrection of a Poet', New York Herald Tribune Books, March 1931 213 57 HERBERT READ, review, Criterion, April 1931 215 58 JUSTIN O'BRIEN, review, Bookman (New York), April 1931 215 59 ALAN PRYCE-JONES, 'Gerard Manley Hopkins', London Mercury, May 1931 217 60 HARMAN GRISEWOOD, review, Dublin Review, October 1931 222 61 YVOR WINTERS, 'An Appreciation of Robert Bridges', Hound and Horn, January-March 1932 225 62 G.w. STONIER, review, New Statesman and Nation, June 1932 226 63 F.R. LEAVIS, New Bearings in English Poetry, 1932 230 64 HERBERT READ, Form in Modem Poetry, 1932 238 65 HERBERT READ, 'Poetry and Belief in Gerard Manley Hopkins', New Verse, January 1933 245 ix
66 Unsigned article, 'Poetry in the Present', Times Literary Supplement, February 1933 245 67 ELSIE PHARE, The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1933 246 68 Unsigned review of-phare, Notes and Queries, November 1933 255 69 HERBERT READ, 'The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins', English Critical Essays of the Twentieth Century, 1933 255 70 R.L. MEGROZ, Modern English Poetry, 1933 261 71 HUMPHRY HOUSE, unsigned review of Phare, Times Literary Supplement, January 1934 263 72 WILLIAM ROSE BENET, 'The Phoenix Nest', Saturday Review of Literature (New York), February 1934 268 73 M[ICHAEL] R[OBERTS], review of Phare, Adelphi, April 1934 269 74 EDITH SITWELL, Aspects of Modem Poetry, 1934 270 75 c. DAY LEWIS, A Hope for Poetry, 1934 276 76 T.S. ELIOT, After Strange Gods, 1934 284 77 JOAN BENNETT, Four Metaphysical Poets, 1934 286 78 F.w. BATESON, English Poetry and the English Language, 1934-291 Letters of Hopkins to Bridges and Correspondence of Hopkins and Dixon (1935) 79 C.c. ABBOTT, Introduction, Letters of Hopkins to Bridges, 1935 293 80 BASIL DE SELINCOURT, 'Complete Dedication', Observer, January 1935 301 81 FR JOSEPH KEATING, review, Month, February 1935 302 82 GEOFFREY GRIGSON and HUMPHRY HOUSE, New Verse, April 1935 ' 305 83 c. DAY LEWIS, 'Records of a Great Poet', New Republic, May 1935 309 84 BERNARD KELLY, The Mind and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1935 310 85 BERNARD KELLY, 'Hopkins in the Nineteen Thirties', G.K.'s Weekly, October 1935 314 86 CHRISTOPHER DEVLIN,'The Ignatian Inspiration of Gerard Hopkins', Blackfriars, December 1935 318
87 F.R. LEA vis, 'Doughty and Hopkins', Scrutiny, December 1935 324 88 w.h. GARDNER, 'The Wreck of the Deutschland', Essays and Studies, 1935 326 89 FR GEOFFREY BLISS, 'In a Poet's Workshop': "The Woodlark" by G.M. Hopkins', Month, June 1936 330 90 w.h. GARDNER, 'A Note on Hopkins and Duns Scotus', Scrutiny, June 1936 337 91 W.B. YEATS, Introduction, The Oxford Book of Modem Verse, 1936 345 92 MICHAEL ROBERTS, Introduction, The Faber Book of Modem Verse, 1936 346 93 DAVID DAICHES, 'Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Modern Poets', New Literary Values, 1936 347 94 C.K. OGDEN, 'Sprung Rhythm', Psyche, 1936 355 Note-Books and Papers (1937) 95 G.w. STONIER, review? New Statesman and Nation, January 1937 368 96 C.DAY LEWIS, 'Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poet and Jesuit', Left Review, April 1937 369 97 w.h. GARDNER, 'The Religious Problem in G.M. Hopkins', Scrutiny, June 1937 373 98 CHARLES TRUEBLOOD, 'The Esthetics of Gerard Hopkins', Poetry, August 1937 384 99 CORNELIUS WEYGANDT, The Time of Yeats, 1937 384 100 JOHN PICK, 'The Growth of a Poet: Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.', Month, February 1940 385 101 TERENCE HEYWOOD, 'Gerard Manley Hopkins: His Literary Ancestry', English, Spring 1940 386 102 DAVID DAICHES, Poetry and the Modern World, 1940 391 103 LORD DAVID CECIL, Introduction, The Oxford Book of Christian Verse, 1940 393 BIBLIOGRAPHY 395 SELECT INDEX 396 XI