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Hopkins’s Heart

Hopkins’s Heart ANDREW HODGSON ". . . heart's blood spilt Out of heart's anguish, high heart, all-hoping heart, Child-innocent, clean heart, of guile or guilt, But heart storm-tried, fire-purged, heaven chastened . . ." --Monk Gibbon, "The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins"1 Exchanging letters in 1879, Hopkins and his friend R. W. Dixon took issue with Tennyson's poems for their lack of heart. Dixon complained about the "versification" of "Locksley Hall": "It had the effect of being artificial & light: most unfit for intense passion, of which indeed there is nothing in it, but only a man making an unpleasant & rather ungentlemanly row."2 Hopkins agreed: not only Locksley Hall but Maud is an ungentlemanly row and Aylmer's Field is an ungentlemanly row and the Princess is an ungentlemanly row. To be sure this gives him vogue, popularity, but not that sort of ascendancy Goethe had or even Burns, scoundrel as the first was, not to say the second; but then they spoke out the real human rakishness of their hearts and everybody recognised the really beating, though rascal, vein. (Correspondence, 1: 347) The fervour of Hopkins's response might feel surprising, but Dixon has touched a chord which reverberates to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Victorian Poetry West Virginia University Press

Hopkins’s Heart

Victorian Poetry , Volume 54 (1) – May 22, 2016
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ANDREW HODGSON ". . . heart's blood spilt Out of heart's anguish, high heart, all-hoping heart, Child-innocent, clean heart, of guile or guilt, But heart storm-tried, fire-purged, heaven chastened . . ." --Monk Gibbon, "The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins"1 Exchanging letters in 1879, Hopkins and his friend R. W. Dixon took issue with Tennyson's poems for their lack of heart. Dixon complained about the "versification" of "Locksley Hall": "It had the effect of being artificial & light: most unfit for intense passion, of which indeed there is nothing in it, but only a man making an unpleasant & rather ungentlemanly row."2 Hopkins agreed: not only Locksley Hall but Maud is an ungentlemanly row and Aylmer's Field is an ungentlemanly row and the Princess is an ungentlemanly row. To be sure this gives him vogue, popularity, but not that sort of ascendancy Goethe had or even Burns, scoundrel as the first was, not to say the second; but then they spoke out the real human rakishness of their hearts and everybody recognised the really beating, though rascal, vein. (Correspondence, 1: 347) The fervour of Hopkins's response might feel surprising, but Dixon has touched a chord which reverberates to

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