Dacey presents a sustained, intense vision of the English Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. The Hopkins of this book is the historical G.M. Hopkins run through the lively imagination of Philip Dacey. The result is a sort of centaur, half-historical, half-invented the book inhabits two worlds at once - biography and fiction. Widely praised as they appeared individually magazines over the years, these poems are collected now in book form for the first time. -- Amazom.com
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