Edmund
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📚 'Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poetics of Anxiety and Transience' (2023) and I rose up, and knew that I was tired, and continued my journey
My book has been published. A very very happy day. 'Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poetics of Anxiety and Transience' cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-…
Digby Dolben. One of the greatest what ifs in English literature. He died at just 19 years old, but had already shown himself to be a remarkably talented poet.

'And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.' ~ Dylan Thomas, 'Do not go gentle into that good night' Recited by Sir Anthony Hopkins.
How to keep, indeed, how to keep beauty from vanishing away? The disease of mass tourism is runining the dearest inscapes.
🚨 Sunday in the Dolomites, Italy 🇮🇹 Overtourism is reaching an alarming level If this trend of “traveling just for the social media photo” doesn’t stop, Italy will implode and worse, visiting it will become a miserable experience
No real writer would pick the latter.
Would you rather sell one million copies of your book or have it get made into a movie?
if you don't think that I play "I am gall, I am heartburn" over and over in my head sometimes then you don't know me well at all
Which poem or verse by GM Hopkins are you particularly fond of? I'll begin: 'Towery city and branchy between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did Once encounter in, here coped…
Townes Van Zandt is the greatest singer-songwriter. Including Dylan and Cohen.
IT IS THE BLIGHT MAN WAS BORN FOR
Which poem or verse by GM Hopkins are you particularly fond of? I'll begin: 'Towery city and branchy between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did Once encounter in, here coped…
Which poem or verse by GM Hopkins are you particularly fond of? I'll begin: 'Towery city and branchy between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did Once encounter in, here coped…
Óur évening is over us; óur night whélms, whélms, ánd will end us. Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black, Ever so black on it.
And 'Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep and know why.'
'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, Sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners’ ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?'
"Heaven — Haven"
Which poem or verse by GM Hopkins are you particularly fond of? I'll begin: 'Towery city and branchy between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did Once encounter in, here coped…