Gerard Manley Hopkins

In der Washington Post schreibt Edward Hirsch über Gerard Manley Hopkins:

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s sonnet „God’s Grandeur“ is one of the poems that many readers, including poets, have been reciting with special intensity since Sept. 11. … Hopkins’s poem is an argument of praise. Praise restores us to the world again, to our luckiness of being. It is one of the permanent impulses in poetry. Praise is clearly inscribed in the Egyptian Pyramid Texts, the oldest lyrical fragments in existence. It is a defining motive in The Iliad (the praise poem of Achilles) and in Genesis (the praise poem of Yahweh). „Rühmen, das ists!“ Rainer Maria Rilke exclaims in the seventh sonnet to Orpheus: „To praise, that’s it!“
/ Washington Post Sunday, January 20, 2002; Page BW12