tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post2357503692094511410..comments2023-10-26T22:06:11.166+11:00Comments on Metamagician3000: Charles Taylor makes mess of "The Windhover"Russell Blackfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431324430596809958noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-10424928099255406952010-02-22T03:23:26.348+11:002010-02-22T03:23:26.348+11:00Now...this can't be right. Surely those boring...Now...this can't be right. Surely those boring positivistic scientistic scientist types can't love <i>Hopkins</i>. Advertising jingles and traffic signs are their idea of poetry, aren't they? Surely.Ophelia Bensonhttp://www.butterfliesandwheels.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-2963644390958694182010-02-21T10:30:44.522+11:002010-02-21T10:30:44.522+11:00Or "God's Grandeur".Or "God's Grandeur".Russell Blackfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12431324430596809958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-30768460644506475152010-02-21T03:56:48.502+11:002010-02-21T03:56:48.502+11:00Lord, I love Hopkins; such a feeling he had for th...Lord, I love Hopkins; such a feeling he had for the music of words. And yes, Taylor slaughtered it, but he'll cry all the way to the bank.<br /><br />I disagree about one thing, though: I think most people would be far more familiar with Hopkins' poem "Spring and Fall":<br />Margaret, are you grieving<br />Over Goldengrove unleaving?<br />Leaves, like the things of man, you<br />With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?<br />Ah! as the heart grows older<br />It will come to such sights colder<br />By & by, nor spare a sigh<br />Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;<br />And yet you wíll weep & know why.<br />Now no matter, child, the name:<br />Sorrow's springs are the same.<br />Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed<br />What héart héard of, ghóst guéssed:<br />It is the blight man was born for,<br />It is Margaret you mourn for.Jerry Coynehttp://www.whyevolutionistrue.comnoreply@blogger.com