I was carried away by Jessica’s contribution today. I was unaware of Hopkin’s poetry. While sharing some of the whimsy of Lewis Carroll’s verse, it stays safely familiar. I followed the links on Wikipedia to Poet’s Graves and was smitten by The May Magnificat.
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Brian, I bet you would love Frederick Buechner’s book Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say. He talks about four writers, Shakespeare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mark Twain, and G.K. Chesterton, and how they each “wrote in blood” at some point in their lives. It’s a quick read, but so interesting and profound.
Thanks for the referral. I’ll try to find it.
Are you familiar with Santayana’s “Three Philosophical Poets?”