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• Title: Hopkins and Newman: Two Disagreements (Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Henry Newman) (Essay)
• Author : Christianity and Literature
• Release Date : January 22, 2008
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 221 KB

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Gerard Manley Hopkins rarely recorded disagreements with statements in published works of John Henry Newman. The small number of cases that are extant probably highlights his normal agreement with Newman or an inhibition toward dissenting from a revered figure who had facilitated his reception into the Catholic Church. This lack of expressed differences did not arise from an incomplete or superficial experience of Newman's work which he knew well during a period of some twenty-five years, from his days at Highgate to his death in Dublin. (1) During the years after 1864 he remained, in Newman's words in 1888, "among the cardinal's friends and well wishers" (Hopkins, Further Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins 414; Newman, Letters and Diaries 31:246). Five instances of disagreement, possibly all that are recorded, date from 1878 to 1887. Three of these concern literary matters. The first is a "blunder" Hopkins decried in a letter to Canon Richard Dixon: Newman's instancing the gain in smoothness and correctness of versification" Robert Southey showed over John Milton (Hopkins, Correspondence 13). (2) In the second incident, which he mentioned in a letter to A. W. M. Baillie, Hopkins found Newman guilty "of a usage clearly mistaken" when employing the word scope (Further Letters 284). Seven months later he paradoxically informed Coventry Patmore that Newman did not "know what writing prose was" (Further Letters 380). These differences of opinion, incidental remarks in letters, are presented in atone that varies from philological precision, charming disbelief, and rhetorical analysis. Hopkins maintains his certitude in each case, but there is always an implied regret about disagreeing with so great a literary figure and so respected a person.

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