Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Read By: Robert Pinsky

The poem is read aloud, and considered as finding sacred meaning in air pollution and other imagery of the Industrial Age, still new in Hopkins’ time.

See also the Favorite Poem Project’s brief video and reading of the poem.

  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • 19th Century
  • English
  • Freedom & Meaning
  • Lecture
  • Freedom
  • The Art of Poetry