ABSTRACT
Hopkins’s respect for Herbert was evidently far more substantial than the ensuing brief remark might suggest (see above, pp. 27–8). The remark, from a letter to Canon R.W Dixon dated 27 February 1879, is limited to a comparative evaluation of Herbert and Vaughan.
Source: ‘The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon’, ed. Claude C. Abbott, 2nd rev. impr. (1955), pp. 23–4.
