Poem of the week: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins

04/07/10 This time, Hopkins's astonishing control of his wildly experimental form is as awe-inspiring as its subject matter Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote "The Windhover" in May, 1877. He had been a student at St Bueno's Theological College for three years, and this was a productive period: the year of "God's Grandeur", "Spring" and "The Starlight Night", among others. "The Windhover" is the most ...

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