ENPages That Mention Patmore, Coventry, 1823-1896
Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, discussing his meeting with Baillie's cousin, Mrs. Cunliffe; his impending trip to Wales; his visit to the Junior Water Colours and the British Institution; etc.
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being of a very Catholic character. Also The Lover's Stars (a trifle in something like Coventry Patmore's style), and a thing which I hope you will like, a soliloquy of one of the spies left in the wilderness, and the beginning of a story to be called Richard, and some other fragments. So, though I finish nothing, I am not idle. I am thinking, on account of the nobility of the subject, of writing for the Latin Verse after Mods, but not of course with a view to success. It came to pass very happily for me that I shewed several things to Bond; used though I am to conceal what I write except from you, for what he said, though he gave me no especial praise, was of such a kind that I have had great confidence since, such as I never felt at all before. I hope, dear Baillie, you will not