...doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness. I hope in time to have a more balanced and Miltonic style. But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all...calling inscape is what I above all aim at in poetry. Now it is the virtue of design, pattern, or inscape to be distinctive and it is the vice of distinctiveness...

...of poetry and its creation. Gerard Manley Hopkins established another word: he spoke of "inscape". "But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all...calling inscape is what I above all aim at in poetry." (Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, op. cit., p. 96, Preface to the Notes, by Robert Bridges.) We may...

...it were, personality of a poem. "No doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness," he wrote Bridges, "but as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all...calling 'inscape' is what I above all aim at in poetry. Now it is the virtue of design, pattern or inscape to be distinctive and it is the vice of distinctiveness...

...poetry as a thing to be contemplated for its own sake and without any reference to the external world: "But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all...of calling 'inscape' is what I above all aim at in poetry."68 Inscape, said Hopkins, is "the very soul of art."69 It is what makes a work of art "beautiful...

...more frequently with music. This confusion appears in the constantly quoted statement of his goal: 'But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all...and design in painting, so design, pattern or what 1 am in the habit of calling inscape is what I above all aim at in poetry. ' To imply, even, that melody...

...vain search for an editor who would publish it: No doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness. . . . But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all...calling inscape is what I above all aim at in poetry. Now it is the virtue of design, pattern, or inscape to be distinctive and it is the vice of distinctiveness...

...quality and reaching for this pattern. Hopkins (as cited in Roberts, 1994) described it best himself, "so design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of...calling 'inscape' is what I above all aim at in poetry" (p. 34). In unitary pattern appreciation the aim or mark of the artist (scientist/practitioner) is...

...caught and communicated through "speech framed to carry the inscape,"96 namely poetry. He wrote that "as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in...of calling 'inscape' is what I above all aim at in poetry."97 Hopkins had an unqualified belief in the realist possibilities of art and poetry. Poetry...

...pitch. Splicing Scotus's and Hopkins's vocabularies, one can say that once the common nature, or the "design, pattern or what I am in the habit of calling 'inscape' " (L / 66), has been caught or called out, it can with effort, or stalling, be used to reveal the further...

...poetry as a thing to be contemplated for its own sake and without any reference to the external world: 'But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all...calling "inscape" is what I above all aim at in poetry' (1935a, 60). Inscape, said Hopkins, is 'the very soul of art' (1935b, 135). It is what makes a work...