Origine: Poesie e prose scelte, p. 230
Gerard Manley Hopkins frasi celebri
Origine: Poesie e prose scelte, p. 227
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Frasi in inglese
“Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.”
Letter to A.W.M. Baillie (10 September 1864)
Letters, etc
" No Worst, There Is None http://www.bartleby.com/122/41.html", lines 1-2
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.”
Letter to Robert Bridges (13 October 1886)
Letters, etc
Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola
Letter to Coventry Patmore (4 June 1886)
Letters, etc
"Felix Randal", lines 11-14
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.”
"Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend", line 14
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.”
"God's Grandeur," line 10
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
"On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialogue"
Letters, etc
“Natural heart’s ivy, Patience masks
Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.”
" Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray http://www.bartleby.com/122/46.html", lines 6-7
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
"No Worst, There Is None", lines 9 -15
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“On this day by God's grace I resolved to give up all beauty until I had His leave for it.”
Journal entry (6 November 1865), as reported in In Extremity: A Study of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1978) by John Robinson, p. 1
" The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe http://www.bartleby.com/122/37.html", lines 1-8
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
" The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo http://www.bartleby.com/122/36.html: The Leaden Echo, lines 1-2
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
"Spring and Fall", lines 5-9
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Letter to Robert Bridges (3 February 1883)
Letters, etc
" Felix Randal http://www.bartleby.com/122/29.html", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“Beauty … is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.”
"On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialogue"
Letters, etc
" That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection http://www.bartleby.com/122/48.html", lines 22-24
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)