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by Fredric W. Schlatter HE importance that Robert Bridges had for Hopkins during his lifetime and for his posthumous fame is well established. Bridges was a major factor in Hopkins's life, from Oxford to Dublin, in a relationship substantially known from the letters Hopkins wrote to him over a period of twenty years. Bridges's role in eventually publishing Hopkins's poetry has been variously judged, but the fact is incontrovertible that, whatever the criticism, Bridges preserved his friend's poems, as Hopkins did not, and saw to their publication with a proprietorship that revealed his sense of obligation to a friend and a poet. The evidence drawn from their correspondence has produced such important results for understanding Hopkins the poet that it can distort the role that Bridges played in the full context of Hopkins's life.This present article attempts to provide perspective and proportion to the picture of Bridges and Hopkins by examining Hopkins's relations with another friend, Alexander William Mowbray Baillie. BALLIOL, 18 6 3 18 6 5 Baillie was already at Balliol when in April 1863 Hopkins arrived to begin his studies at Oxford. From the first, they got on well enough for Baillie to merit a mention
Studies in Philology – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Oct 25, 2006
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