> Yet ah! this air I gather and I release
He lived on; these weeds and waters, these walls are what
He haunted who of all men most sways my spirits to peace;
Of realty the rarest-veinèd unraveller; a not
Rivalled insight, be rival Italy or Greece;
...
#GerardManleyHopkins on #DunsScotus in #Oxford #Philosophy #Christianity #Poetry

.. what power allows that inscape to be retained and used rather than some other one? For Hopkins the answer would be that this particular image, or inscape, had instress (noun), was instressed (verb). In other words the inscape had a force, an energy, that allowed it to be retained (stressed upon the mind) and put to poetic use.
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> .. the entire experience would have afforded you a myriad of inscapes, of individually distinctive observations. But the one among many that you retain in your memory, the one you could put into a poem or a painting-that’s the inscape that counts for you. At the time you were there you inscaped it (verb), whether or not you were aware of it; now in your memory you retain it as an inscape (noun)..
https://hopkinspoetry.com/terminology/#inscape
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> What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

This poem comes to mind with #Yeats talking about #WilliamMorris and #Habundia,
#TheGreenTree #TheWetStones of the well. The life-loving #poets try to replace the #DeadTree of the cross with a #LivingTree of Nature: replace death and torture with Abundance.
https://hopkinspoetry.com/poem/inversnaid/
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