The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not... an obsolete one.


Letter to Robert Bridges (August 14, 1879) - Letters, etc

Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not... an obsolete one.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not... an obsolete one.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not... an obsolete one.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not... an obsolete one.