It seems to me, and I wonder if it seems to you, that Ger...

It seems to me, and I wonder if it seems to you, that Gerard Manley Hopkins is getting a heck of a lot of shout-outs these days. This strikes me as a positive trend because it suggests a renewed interest in the sonics of praise and ecstasy.
Hopkins was one of the first poets I loved, along with Louis MacNeice, who I was just thinking about the other day. MacNeice's use of the refrain really influenced me when I wasn't looking (as did Catholicism when I was a preteen--which leads me back to...