The
poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
~Gerard Manley Hopkins
That’s a great quote. That’s what I believe poetic language is all
about. Now it could be arguable that
Hopkins practiced it himself. Certainly
his language is heightened, but does he actually employ the current language of
his day? His language in many of his
poems, though not all, is so heightened that it could be said that he crossed
over into a language of another age, of either a passed age or of an age he
created.
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