Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1976

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Nathan, Norman

Abstract

The remarkable genius of Gerard Manley Hopkins' visual perception, as revealed in his journals and poems, is a product of the intensity with which the poet conceives a thing in terms of the physical action prompted by it, and is the result of the vibrant joining of perceiver and percept. He defines a scene so that the reader may see and praise God, the Creator of each thing in the landscape. The joining of God, perceiver, and percept is a dynamic communion charged with energy. According to Hopkins, the flow of language should match the original sensation of the single unified effect upon the beholder of the scene; such a sensation appears in direct relationship to the intensity of the poet's visual interpretation of the scene.

Extent

61 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13829

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