Gerard Manley Hopkins - To what extent do you agree with Robert Bridges view that his poetry is "some of the most musical ever written" Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the greatest 19th-century poets of religion, of nature, and of ... registers of diction - " How ring right out our sorbid turbid time-. This leads to a surprising mix of neologisms throughout his lines, "turbid" and "sorbid" are not words that I have come across before and I am sure many other people can empathise. Yet for all his innovation and disregard of convention, Hopkins' goal it seems was always to bring poetry closer ...

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