SOURCE: "A New Style," in Gerard Manley Hopkins, Twayne, 1982, pp. 64-92.
Bump is an American critic with a special interest in Hopkins's work. In the following excerpt, he offers a stylistic analysis of his poetry, focusing on the recurrence or "parallelism" of certain sounds in Hopkins's work.
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