3 Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes on Literature

Gerard Manley Hopkins quotes on literature

3. Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

13. I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

14. I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.