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- Title
HOPKINS' 'SKIES OF COUPLE-COLOUR': A DEBT TO BARNES'S 'CAPPLED' COWS?
- Authors
Russell- Brown, Sheelagh
- Abstract
The article provides information about one of the letters written by Gerard Manley Hopkins, an English poet. In the letter Gerard Manley Hopkins speaks of his interest in the dialect poet and philologist William Barnes, who in his many books and articles presented the most extreme Germanic purism of the nineteenth century. The letter was addressed to Robert Bridges, a poet. He states that William. Barnes, good soul of Dorset-dialect poems has published a Speech-craft of English speech. He does not see the utter hopelessness of the thing.
- Subjects
POETS; HOPKINS, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889; 19TH century English literature; BARNES, William, 1801-1886; BRIDGES, Robert, 1844-1930; ENGLISH poetry; NINETEENTH century; POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1987, Vol ns-34, Issue 4, p494
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article