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Gerard Manley Hopkins influence on other authors

Posted by ebrupe on 9 November 2010

Gerard Manley Hopkins work left several influences over different authors during the Romanticism, as well as during the Neo-Romanticism and Imagism movements. During the 20th century, the first author who said that received influences of Hopkins work was the English composer and poet Ivor Gurney, and also the poet an English essayist Wystan Hugh Auden, who might have met Hopkins at the Oxford University.

We can also notice the influence of Hopkins in the Literature Nobel Prize’s winner Thomas Stearns Eliot and all his generation, as well as Arthur Waley who developed Hopkins technique of the Sprung Rhythm, as well as the Spanish poet Rubén Darío, who experimented with Hopkins technique of the Sprung Rhythm. But, as Hopkins saw sprung rhythm as a way to escape the constraints of running rhythm, which he said inevitably pushed poetry written in it to become “same and tame”, Hopkins can be seen as anticipating much of free verse. His work has no great affinity with either of the contemporary Pre-Raphaelite and neo-romanticism schools, although he does share their descriptive love of nature and he is often seen as a precursor to modernist poetry or as a bridge between the two poetic eras. That is why we can explain Hopkins’s influence on the development of other poets as the Irish Seamus Heaney, the Imagist Ezra Pound, and John Berryman, among other American authors of the twentieth century. It was Walter Jackson Ong who dedicated Hopkins some literary approaches in a book called Hopkins, The Self, and God, and in a thesis about the Sprung Rhythm created by Hopkins, called An Ong Reader.

Hopkins has also influenced on important 20th century musicians and composers using his poems as a a basis for theis songs, as they are the English Benjamin Britten, Michael Tippett, Grace Williams and Kenneth Leighton, the American Samuel Barber ,and the French Jean Guillow among others. It can be the fact that, as not being any recordings about Hopkins songs of his poems, he is not remembered as an important composer, and he has not any impact on the English remains. Moreover, we have to notice that Hopkins’s poetry emerged once passed twenty years of his death, and it was thanks to Robert Bridges who kept all his work, and that was what made Gerard Manley Hopkins to be known nowadays.

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