jeffhall's review
3.0
I have to admit being somewhat baffled with Hopkins' poetry, rich though it is in a beautifully musical language. Like the work of the seventeenth-century metaphysical poets that preceded him, Hopkins' verse is often laden with religious references and symbols that are mostly foreign to me. On the other hand, a non-religious poem like "Inversnaid" sings with lush alliteration that I can really appreciate. Certainly a poet worth re-visiting, but on first blush his work is just a bit too impenetrable for my taste.
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