Victorian Poetry 19: Swinburne and Hopkins

Published: March 31, 2023, 3:34 a.m.

b'We discuss "The Garden of Proserpine" and the ways that it anticipates or instantiates Freud\'s idea of the death drive: all the repetitions in the poem. Then we turn to the poet most opposite in attitude: Hopkins, and talk briefly of "Pied Beauty" and "That Nature is a Heralcitean Fire." Discussion in Instress and the Duns-Scotian term haecicity that makes it possible, as opposed to Thomas Aquainas\' universality. We\'ll finish considering Hopkins next class.'