428 KB72 KB198220252016Starčević, Mirkoštevilka:1/2letnik:49str. 85-108ISSN:0567-784XCOBISSID:62763362URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-TQ9OZHPJenZnanstvena založba Filozofske fakulteteActa neophilologicaangleška književnostbeautyEnglish literaturefluxHopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889lepotaLiterarne študijePater, Walter, 1839-1894romanticismromantikaspremenljivostGerard Manley Hopkins and Walter Pater| the labyrinths of transience|Transience forming life's very essence left an indelible mark on the creative explorations of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Walter Pater. The permanently indeterminable presence of mutability made both of them face the umbrous and unknowable aspect of death, thus revealing unto them the task of determining the role of art in life ruled by ceaseless corrosion. Pater accepts the flux of mutability as the primary particle in the revelatory act of the authentic creative experience. The power of that which is frolicsome in art augments the constitution of life's essence submerged in the unsettled condition of fate. Hopkins the priest particularly in his theoretic excursions recognizes in art itself only an approximate value to the timeless grandeur of God's ubiquity. His poetry, however, presents a dissimilar narrative. The poetic image that Hopkins forges corresponds to the mode of exposed individuality of the Romantic spirit, which Pater perceives as the harmony of strangeness and beauty. During Hopkins' student days at Oxford, Pater's relationship to the young poet was not confined to coaching only. Much of their time they spent in conversation, meditating upon the essential principles of artistic expression. Pater influenced Hopkins greatly and contributed impressively to the discipline of his poetic heart. Traces of this companionship do not find the path to Hopkins' religious ruminations; they announce their own existence, although very subtly, upon the individual levels of Hopkins' poetic yearningsMinljivost, ki gradi jedrni tok življenja, je močno zaznamovala ustvarjanja Gerarda Manleyja Hopkinsa in Walterja Paterja. Permanentno nedoločena prisotnost spremenljivega je oba ustvarjalca soočila s temno in nespoznavno podobo smrti in jima razprla vprašanje o vlogi umetnosti v nezaustavljivem razkroju, ki vlada življenju. Pater sprejme tok spremenljivosti kot ključni delež razodetja samolastnega umetniškega izkustva. V umetnosti moč iskrivega razkrivanja dopolnjuje v negotovo usodnost pokopano konstitucijo življenjskega bistva. Hopkins kot duhovnik v umetnosti zlasti v teoretičnem oziru spozna le približek brezčasne veličine božjega obličja, a njegova poezija izpričuje drugačno zgodbo. Pesniška podoba Hopkinsu predstavlja izpostavljeno individualnost romantičnega duha, ki ga je Pater dojemal kot sorodnost tujosti in lepega. V času Hopkinsovega študija na Oxfordu Pater ni bil le mentor mladega pesnika. Mnogo časa sta preživela v pogovoru, prevprašujoč temeljna določila umetniškega ustvarjanja. Pater je na Hopkinsa torej močno vplival in doprinesel mnogo k vzgoji njegovega pesniškega srca. Sledi tega odnosa ne najdejo poti v Hopkinsova verska premišljevanja; svojo navzočnost razkrivajo, čeprav zelo prikrito, na posameznih ravneh Hopkinsovih pesniških hrepenenjTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta