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Tag: Hopkins

207. (Amy Clampitt)

Amy Clampitt’s “Nothing Stays Put” opens with an allusion to Wordsworth’s “The World is Too Much With Us,” and the … More

American poetry, Amy Clampitt, Elizabeth Bishop, Hopkins, John Clare, Poetry, Romanticism, Self-Conscious, Wallace Stevens, Whitman, Wordsworth

119. (Geoffrey Hill)

We are accustomed to hearing that Geoffrey Hill makes few concessions to readers, that he bristles at accommodation, compromise, and … More

Contemporary Poetry, Geoffrey Hill, Hopkins, The Orchards of Syon

76. (Robert Burns)

“Now Burns loses prodigiously by translation.” Thus Hopkins in a letter to Robert Bridges. Though prejudiced against the Scots, Hopkins … More

Dialect, Dialect Poetry, Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Hopkins, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Robert Burns, Scots, Victorians
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