The concept of 'Inscape' and 'Instress,' which influenced early Modernist sensibilities regarding the unique identity of objects, was developed by:
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Correct answer: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Though writing in the late Victorian period, Hopkins' work was published posthumously in 1918 and embraced by Modernists. 'Inscape' refers to the unique inner design of a thing, while 'instress' is the force that transmits that design to the observer.
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