12 May 2026

No doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness. I hope in time to have a more balanced and Miltonic style. But as air and melody is what strikes me most in music, and design in painting, so design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of calling 'inscape' is what I above all aim at in poetry.

Gerard Manley HopkinsLetter to Robert Bridges, 1879