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Victorian Poetry 20: George Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins

Published: April 4, 2023, 3:17 p.m.

b'A lot of greats to do in a single day, and not wanting to miss Eliot we begin with a little contextualization of three of the sonnets from "Brother and Sister," then move on to a few grim Hardy poems, and then to Hopkins: "As kingfishers catch fire" compared with one of the "terrible sonnets," "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day."'