By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Towards Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his artistic violence and insistence at the sound of poetry, the writer used to be no staid, traditional Victorian. On coming into the Jesuit order the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to put in writing not more, as now not belonging to my career, except by way of the desires of my superiors'.
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W. DIXON St. Joseph’s, Bedford Leigh. Oct. 31,1879. My pricey Canon, Pray don't ship the piece to the paper: i can't consent to, I forbid its e-book. you want to see that to submit my manuscript opposed to my expressed want is a breach of belief. Ask any pal and he'll let you know a similar. furthermore this type of ebook is especially not going to do the great that you just wish and extremely more likely to do the damage that I worry. For who ever heard of reputation gained via e-book in an area paper, and of 1 piece? If every little thing of its intrinsic goodness gravitated to popularity your poems wd. lengthy due to the fact were recognized. have been Tennyson, placing apart marks of favor through which he will be acknowledged, to ship anything to the 19th Century or top circulated London journal with out his identify it wd. be forgotten in a month: now no identify and an unknown identify is all one. yet what's no longer close to adequate for public reputation can be good enough for personal notoriety, that is what I dread. you assert really that our Society fosters literary excellence. Why then it can be left to seem to its personal pursuits. it will probably now not approve of unauthorised ebook, for all that we submit has to be noticeable via censors first. on the other hand when you have been to print my piece you will absolutely now not mutilate it. And but you need to; for with what grace may well you, a priest of the Church of britain, stand godfather to a few of the stanzas in that poem? And along with i need to change the final stanza. Nov. 1 – This letter, which the strain of parish paintings has behind schedule, will now, I daresay, be too overdue and the Eurydice can have seemed. you'll discover your warmhearted yet a lot incorrect kindness may be unavailing: if the paper takes the piece (which it truly is bound to misprint) few will learn it and of these few fewer will experiment it, less comprehend or love it. (To verify the scanning is obvious sufficient, yet humans can't, or they won't, soak up whatever although undeniable that departs from what they've been taught and taken as much as count on: i do know from experience). certainly i'm in hopes that the problem may also break out the attention of our personal humans. 1 think me affectionately your good friend Gerard Hopkins S. J. XIX TO A. W. M. BAILLIE eight Salisbury road, Liverpool. may perhaps 22, 1880. Dearest Baillie, i don't understand how it really is, while your letters provide me rather a lot excitement to get, i'm so gradual in answering them. no less than i will be able to say my Liverpool paintings is especially harassing and makes it challenging to write down. this night i'm sitting in my confessional, however the devoted are fewer than ordinary and i'm by surprise brought from a sermon which in a different way I must have needed to be introduced of. the following comes an individual. you are saying it's anything of an affectation for me to run up the Lancashire humans and run down ‘Oxonians’ – disagreeable notice, allow us to say the Oxford ones. i don't consider rather what I stated; are you certain it used to be, as you suppose, of costume, now not city i used to be talking? Now I do like either. to not love my college will be to undo the very buttons of my being and as for the Oxford townspeople i discovered them in my 10 months’ stay1 between them very deserving of love – although a little bit stiff, stand-off, and depressed.