Gerard Manley Hopkins an Robert Bridges in London
St. Joseph’s, Bedford Leigh, Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 1879
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[…] Do you like Weber? For personal preference and fellow feeling I like him of all musicians best after Purcell. I feel as if I c[oul]d. have composed his music in another sphere. I do not feel that of Handel or Mozart or Beethoven. Moreover I do not | think his great genius is appreciated. I sh[oul]d. like to read his life. He was a good man, I believe, with no hateful affectation of playing the fool and behaving like a blackguard. […]
Editorial
Summary
Erörterung poetischer Themen
Incipit
“One thing you say in your last is enough to make me quite sad”
Responsibilities
- Übertragung
- Eveline Bartlitz
Tradition
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Text Source: Claude Colleer Abbott (Ed.), The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges. Ed. with notes and an Introduction, 2. rev. ed., London, New York & Toronto 1955, pp. 93–99*
