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This paper analyzes the features of Hopkins’ labourers, taking especial note of similarities with Ruskin’s thought. Having been a Jesuit, Hopkins understands the terrible situation of the poor in England and is pessimistic in his expectations for their future. However, he idealizes the life and work of the poor in his poems, borrowing several concepts from Ruskin. At first, in “Felix Randal”, Hopkins makes Felix the smith a happy and proud worker at his forge. The concept of the happy worker is an idea of Ruskin’s, and very unique for its time in its suggestion that work could be a source of pleasure and that a worker might feel a sense of self-achievement through his creative endeavor. In “Tom’s Garland,” Tom and Dick, day-labourers at a construction site, cooperate and develop healthy bonds with each other like Ruskin’s workers. Tom’ steel garland is quite similar with Ruskin’s idea of ‘The Work of Iron’ and Tom’s easy mind and careless behavior is closely related to Ruskin’s conceptions of “Savageness or Rudeness.” Like Ruskin, Hopkins expresses strong objection to all violent activities by malignant people or the unemployed. So, “Harry Ploughman” celebrates the statically agricultural society in which everyone helps everyone else and all are truly obedient to legitimate authority. Therefore, a plough is embossed as the symbol of the peasant’s simple yet hard work, obedience to God, and self-sacrificing efforts for Commonwealth, just as in Ruskin.

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I. 서론
 II. 펠릭스 : 자아실현과 수공예정신
 III. 톰 : 건축노동자와 협력의 이상
 IV. 해리 : 쟁기를 든 농부와 유기적 사회
 V. 결론
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• 김연규 [ Kim, Yeon-Gyu | 강릉원주대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810