The Poetry Fix: Pied Beauty
WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM · Aug 29, 2026 · 5:17
WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM
WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM · Aug 29, 2026 · 5:17
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We tend to think of beauty in terms of purity and proportion, but Hopkins upends those conventional ideas in "Pied Beauty." Instead, he proposes that God "fathers-forth" his beauty in the irregular and variable. Join Erika Kyba for her reading of why Hopkins celebrates sublimity in the strange.
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