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A review by versmonesprit
As kingfishers catch fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
2.0
I love Transcendentalism and religious poetry, so I fully expected to love Hopkins’s poems. That wasn’t exactly the case: while his love for nature and finding God in it come close to a transcendental stance, I found his use of language to be a bit too modern — to the point it sometimes felt like reading Tender Buttons! Yes, that makes him way ahead of his time, but also means it was far from my very specific tastes in poetry.
My biggest gripe with this small selection from Penguin’s Little Black Classics collection is its randomness, especially in the selection of Hopkins’s prose. It felt lazy, as if not much thought or care went into the planning of this small edition. My rating reflects more on the edition itself than the contents, as I think I should read the full collection these came from before commenting on the latter.
My biggest gripe with this small selection from Penguin’s Little Black Classics collection is its randomness, especially in the selection of Hopkins’s prose. It felt lazy, as if not much thought or care went into the planning of this small edition. My rating reflects more on the edition itself than the contents, as I think I should read the full collection these came from before commenting on the latter.
But also, fucking hell we direly need to enforce IQ tests before allowing people to read, because I went through the reviews out of curiosity and what????? do you mean “Old English”?!?! This was written in the 19th century, not the 9th… R.I.P. to the education system, you will be sorely missed.