Abstract
The author traces the philosophical and poetic similarities between Robert Penn Warren and Gerard Manley Hopkins. In doing so, he addresses the meditative process that Warren and Hopkins use in their work in order to demonstrate human connectedness to each other and nature in the form of what could be called a mystic unity. Integral to this meditative process is Hopkins’ idiosyncratic concepts of “inscape” and “instress,” which are defined and explored by the author while demonstrating how Warren’s work is in dialogue with these concepts, particularly in his 1968 collection of poems, Incarnations.
Recommended Citation
Carpenter, D.A.
(2012)
"The Windhover and Evening Hawk Shudder in Sync: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Penn Warren,"
Robert Penn Warren Studies: Vol. 9, Article 9.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/rpwstudies/vol9/iss1/9