期刊名称：Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
电子版ISSN：1948-5778
出版年度：2015
卷号：7
页码：20-24
语种：English
出版社：International Institute for Science, Technology Education
摘要：When Queen Victoria succeeded to throne in 1837, English Literature seemed to have entered upon a period of lean years, in marked contrast with poetic fruitfulness of the Romantic Age. The entry she made in her diary on that occasion tells us much about the moral earnestness which she lived by and diffused among her subjects during her long reign. Hopkins has been designated as a modern poet because he broke the existing Victorian mould of poetic expression and used his poetic craft to express his ideas and emotions in a radical manner. In terms of themes, language, rhythm, metre, imagery, Hopkins adopted techniques, which were beyond his time's. He was ahead of the literary age in which he lived and wrote.
