Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"
- Author
- Sean Johnson
- Published
- Wed 07 May 2025
- Episode Link
- https://dailypoempod.substack.com/p/gerard-manley-hopkins-binsey-poplars-f81
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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