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Between February and September 1877, the final months of his three years at St Beuno’s College in North Wales, Hopkins wrote ten sonnets which are one of the high points of his poetic achievement. In calling them the Welsh Sonnets I mean to suggest that these poems can be considered as a group. They are bound together by the chronology of their composition and the fact that many of them draw upon Hopkins’s experiences in Wales. They also show many similarities of poetic technique and theme.
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© 1987 R. J. C. Watt
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Watt, R.J.C. (1987). The Welsh Sonnets. In: Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18830-7_4
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