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This chapter provides a guide to some of the difficulties which new readers may encounter in studying Hopkins, beginning with his often innovative uses of poetic form and technique, and then discussing some of the ideas which recur throughout his poetry.
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© 1987 R. J. C. Watt
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Watt, R.J.C. (1987). An Approach to the Poetry. In: Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18830-7_2
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