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Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"

The Daily Poem · Sean Johnson

May 7, 20258m 39s

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Show Notes

Today’s poem owes a strong debt to Cowper’s “The Poplar Field” but also features a few stylistic echoes of Poe’s “Annabel Lee,” all while achieving a (superior?) effect of its own. Happy reading.



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