The poet whose sprung rhythm Bob places, in dialogue 24, inside McLuhan's "magic casements of being" sequence — the early-1950s passage on epiphany, revelation, and the intuition of being that Bob and Cameron parse at the dialogue's open. Hopkins marks the poetic register of that moment: where the object changes and, with it, the subject. He is a single reference, but one that ties the dialogue's "third position" back to McLuhan's Catholic-humanist reading of poetry.
Across the dialogues
Enters inside the "magic casements" passage — his sprung rhythm marks the moment in McLuhan's sequence where epiphany yields the intuition of being
Hopkins is the poetic hinge of the "magic casements" passage — his sprung rhythm sits in McLuhan's sequence just before the intuition of being, the poetry that accompanies the epiphany in which subject and object change together.
"he talks about the importance of Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins sprung rhythm."
Connections
Hopkins's sprung rhythm sits in the McLuhan "magic casements" sequence on epiphany and the intuition of being.