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Saturday, January 7, 2012

A Year With Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ: Beauty of Inscape

A Year With Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ: Beauty of Inscape
July 19, 1872
...Stepped into a barn of ours, a great shadowy barn, where the hay had been stacked on either side, and looking at the great ruddy arched timberframes---principals(?) and tie-beams, which make them look like bold big A's with the cross-bar high up---and I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.,,,p.211, Journal

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