Journal article
Christian Pre-Raphaelitism: G. M. Hopkins' Debt to Richard Watson Dixon
Victorian poetry, Vol.16(4), pp.314-322
12/01/1978
Abstract
Richard Watson Dixon was the only contemporary who consistently appreciated Hopkins' poetry, and Hopkins in turn was perhaps Dixon's most intense admirer. Hopkins, who needed a Christian transmitter of contemporary Victorian romanticism, was consistently drawn to the work of a Pre-Raphaelite of orthodox religious convictions, and his early reading of Dixon may have reinforced traits of his own poetic sensibility and influenced "The Wreck of the Deutschland." His careful criticisms of Dixon's works reveal growing impatience with their stylistic and structural flaws, but confirm his awareness of a temperamental kinship with the older poet.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Christian Pre-Raphaelitism: G. M. Hopkins' Debt to Richard Watson Dixon
- Creators
- Florence S. Boos
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Victorian poetry, Vol.16(4), pp.314-322
- Publisher
- West Virginia University
- ISSN
- 0042-5206
- eISSN
- 1530-7190
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/1978
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398796402771
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