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Hopkins and Newman on Poetry
- Newman Studies Journal
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2006
- pp. 23-33
- 10.1353/nsj.2006.0003
- Article
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Abstract:
This article examines two statements that Hopkins made on Newman as a poet and as a critic of poetry. Hopkins carefully analyzed the literary genealogy of Newman’s poetry, indifferently assessed its general achievement, and specifically criticized one point in Newman’s judgment of a poet. Hopkins’ statements, which came late in his own career, give no hint of a process of change in his response to Newman’s poetry. But Newman’s numerous remarks, gleaned from random sources over forty years, demonstrate change in his theory of poetry.