222 notes to chapter 3
- Symonds, “The Blank Verse of Milton,” 767–81, reprinted in Blank Verse, 73–
113; Symonds, appendix, Sketches and Studies of Italy, 411–28; and Symonds, appen-
dix, Sketches and Studies of the Southern Europe, 325–84. - Stanford, Selected Letters of Robert Bridges, vol. 1, 127.
- Ibid., 128.
- The preface was included with the poem before Hopkins sent the poem to Cov-
entry Patmore in 1884. Norman MacKenzie, Complete Poems and Manuscripts, 314. - Ibid., 118
- Abbott, LIII, 14.
- The sonnet became, initially, the twenty-third sonnet in his 1889 version of The
Growth of Love and the twenty-second sonnet in all other editions. Cf. Holmes, “The
Growth of The Growth of Love,” 583–97; 55, 221. - Stanford, In The Classic Mode, 86. He lists “A Passer-by,” “The Downs,” and
“Early Autumn Sonnet — So hot the noon” as the three additional poems in accentual
meter. - See MacKenzie, Poetical Works, 376–77, for a detailed discussion of the manu-
scripts, and 144–46 for a copy of the earliest surviving autograph copy of the poem. - For a summary of readings of “The Windhover,” by far the most discussed of
Hopkins’s poems, see ibid., 378. - “Mastery” has a sforzando sign above it, indicating slightly stronger stress and
greater emphasis (ibid., 144). - Abbott, LI, 85.
- Cf. Harrison, “The Birds of Gerard Manley Hopkins,” 448–63; also, August,
“The Growth of ‘The Windhover,’” 465–68. - Abbott, LI, 71.
- September 28, 1883, in Derek Patmore, “Three Poets Discuss New Verse Forms:
The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Bridges, and Coventry Pat-
more,” 69–78. - Bridges, Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, 5. Henry Beeching was one of Gerard
Manley Hopkins’s first editors (posthumous), including some of his poems in his turn
of the century antholog y Lyra Sacra. He also married Robert Bridges’s niece. - Symonds, “The Blank Verse of Milton,” 767–81, mentioned by Hopkins to
Bridges in letter XXX, April 3, 1877 (Abbott, LI, 32–40). - Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Southern Europe, 361–62.
- Ibid., 352. Blank Verse, which became a more famous volume, was published in
1895 and included the essays first published in the former book. - The rules he presented in 1887 included the rule of open vowels (all open vow-
els may be elided); the second rule of pure R (unstressed vowels separated by “r” may
be elided). This rule has an interesting exception in Milton’s use of the word spirit:
“Milton uses the word spirit (and thus its derivatives) to fill indifferently one or two
places of the ten in his verse). . . . The word is an exception” (22); the third rule of pure
L (unstressed vowels before pure L may be elided, and here the exception is on the
word “evil”) and finally the fourth rule of the elision of unstressed vowels before N. - Bridges, On the Prosody of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes.
- Unsigned review, “Mr. Bridges and Metre,” review of Milton’s Prosody, by Rob-
ert Bridges, 85. The review begins, “Mr. Robert Bridges’ essay on Milton’s prosody has
long been recognized by metrical students as a work of standing value.”