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The curtal sonnet is a form invented by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and used in three of his poems.. It is an eleven-line (or, more accurately, ten-and-a-half-line) sonnet, but rather than the first eleven lines of a standard sonnet it has precisely the structure of a Petrarchan sonnet in which each component is three-quarters of its original length. [1]
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame places him among the leading English poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovator, as did his praise of God through vivid use of imagery and nature.
The Windhover" is a sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). It was written on 30 May 1877, [1] but not published until 1914, when it was included as part of the collection Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Hopkins dedicated the poem "To Christ our Lord".
As part of his attempted renewal of poetic prosody, Gerard Manley Hopkins had applied his experimental sprung rhythm to the composition of the sonnet, amplifying the number of unstressed syllables within a five- (or occasionally six-) stressed line – as in the rhetorical "The Windhover", for example.
For Hopkins, living in a rising tide of disbelief, [13] no simple answer could be given, perhaps because any valid answer needed to be lived rather than declared, and as he lived his life through to the period of the last 'terrible sonnets' he became more human and more prone to despair and less inclined to write about inscape. [14]
Sprung rhythm is a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. It is constructed from feet in which the first syllable is stressed [dubious – discuss] and may be followed by a variable number of unstressed syllables. [1]
"Pied Beauty" is a curtal sonnet by the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). It was written in 1877, but not published until 1918, when it was included as part of the collection Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. [1]
Gerard Manley Hopkins used the form in a less satirical mood in his "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire." [ 4 ] The poem is one of many in which Hopkins experimented with variations on sonnet form. However, unlike the curtal sonnet , a Hopkins invention which is a 10½-line form with precisely the same proportions as a Petrarchan sonnet , his ...