Allen J. Salerno - A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins (review) - Victorian Studies 45:4 Victorian Studies 45.4 (2003) 773-775 A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Julia F. Saville; pp. xii + 240. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000, $37.50, £28.95. In his much-anthologized sonnet "Pied Beauty" (1877), Gerard Manley Hopkins crowns his catalogue of "dappled things" with a jubilant compendium of "[a]ll things counter, original, spare, strange; / Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)" (qtd. 123). And many readers, I suspect, are tempted to lump the entirety of Hopkins's poetry in with these sublime oddities, puzzling over its strangeness and spareness, freckles and fickleness, sighing their own "Who knows?" at the conundrums it raises. It is one of the many strengths of Julia Saville's rich and provocative A Queer Chivalry that it neither simplifies the complexity of Hopkins's poetics nor turns his verse into an arid linguistic field, devoid of beauty or...