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Jan 2022
51m 47s

”As Kingfishers Catch Fire...”, a poem b...

Michael Lavers
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Some students and I walk through Hopkins' poem, celebrating its particular pleasures and insights, as well as talking in general about how easy it is to access the strange mysterious power of a poem. 

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