RT Article
T1 Gerard Manley Hopkins and Ruskin’s Idea of the Christian Artist
JF Religion and the arts
VO 22
IS 4
SP 446
OP 468
A1 Ward, Bernadette Waterman 1959-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1580833039
AB John Ruskin gave Gerard Manley Hopkins an aesthetic vocabulary imbued with Christian concepts of obedience, sacrifice, truth, and Divine Beauty. Even secular art is never morally neutral; Christian art has additional moral weight in the artist’s reverence for God’s self-revelation in creation. Hopkins’s Scotism confirmed his conviction that an artist’s work must be a responsible personal proclamation of truth about creation. Such moral responsibility discourages easy sentimentality but demands reverence for beauty. The depth of Hopkins’s interaction with etymology, syntax, and sound springs from Ruskinian sacrificial expenditure of workmanship and reverence for what Ruskin called “truth” to materials. “Ashboughs,” a cheerful, subtly Marian curtal sonnet, shows Hopkins’s Ruskinian principles at work late in his life, especially in the poet’s attention to diction, syntax, and divine truth revealed in concrete, worldly beauty.
K1 Hopkins : Ruskin : aesthetics : “Ashboughs” : curtal sonnet : Virgin Mary : beauty
DO 10.1163/15685292-02204004