Premium Content Sterility and Communion in T.S. Eliot and Gerard Manley Hopkins
By Nathaniel Popper - February 19, 2002
Twenty some years after the death of Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot began where Hopkins had left off. In one of his earliest poems, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", Eliot picked up the hopelessness - hopelessness motivated by a sense of isolation - that had pervaded Hopkins later poetry. Both poets battled with their faith in their own…
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