ABSTRACT
John Pick in Gerard Manley Hopkins: Priest and Poet provides a further detailed account of the influence of Ignatian spirituality on Hopkins's life and work. Dennis Sobolev, in his article 'Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Language of Mysticism', notes the disappearance of any discussion of Hopkins's mysticism from the 1950s onwards. For Clement and Origen, it is the mind enlightened by Christian doctrine and instructed in the discipline of contemplation that is the primary faculty for the intuitive apprehension of God. A number of critics including Downes and Jude Nixon and Margaret Johnson, have noted Hopkins's familiarity with Newman's arguments for the role of intuition and the affections in matters of faith. Coleridge was an important influence on Newman's conception of conscience, and Hopkins's use of the term 'Fancy' effectively calls up a whole Romantic epistemology an appeal to the imagination, the passions and the heart.
