Here are some remarks on Scotus by the Franciscan Minister General.
And here I give you the famous poem by Hopkins for your delectation. Source.
Duns Scotus's Oxford
Towery city and branchy between towers;
Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark charmèd, rook racked, river-rounded;
The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did
Once encounter in, here coped & poisèd powers;
Thou hast a base and brickish skirt there, sours
That neighbour-nature thy grey beauty is grounded
Best in; graceless growth, thou hast confounded
Rural, rural keeping — folk, flocks, and flowers.
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;
Who fired France for Mary without spot.
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;
Who fired France for Mary without spot.
2 comments:
John Duns Scotus served, in a manner that is as yet unclear, as an inspiration for Gerard Manley Hopkins. There have been 3 or 4 books on this relationship in the past several decades, but I cannot recommend any of them. Perhaps they are answering a question which is poorly defined in essence. The latest by one, by John Llewellyn, discouraged me from buying it when it received this review:
https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/gerard-manley-hopkins-and-the-spell-of-john-duns-scotus/
As a poem which addresses the relationship between the two figures, I recommend, "Pied Beauty".
Ouch! But I'm glad Williams took the time to read the book.
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