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August 19 – G Manley Hopkins “The caged Skylark”

August 19 – G M Hopkins, sj  1844-1889 “or wring their barriers in bursts of fear or rage” Recording of lark song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyo66_EyOtI Gerard Manley Hopkins, sj, a radical innovator among 19th century poets, chose Anglo-Saxon over Latinate English vocabulary … Continue reading

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