Note 2 to Chapter 1 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges, ed. Claude Colleer Abbott (London: Oxford University Press, 1935), p. 267. Both this and the previous quotation from Hopkins appear in Josephine Miles, Eras and Modes in English Poetry, 2d ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964), p. 168. On Hopkins's theory and practice of ut pictura poesis, see Jerome Bump, "Hopkins and Keats," Victorian Poetry, 12 (1974), 36-38, and "Hopkins' Drawings," in All My Eyes Can See: The Visual World of Gerard Manley Hopkins, ed. R. K. R. Thornton (Sunderland: Ceolfrith Press, 1975), p. 80. See also Robert C. Wilson, "Hopkins and the Art of Painting," Thought, 51 (1976), 147-60.
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