Just the Poems, Volume the First

14 | The May Magnificat

Ever the naturalist and supernaturalist, Hopkins considers how the month of May is seasonally suited to the New Mother of All the Living.

13 | The Bugler's First Communion

It does Hopkins, and all of us, good to behold the Eucharistic Lord Whose Presence feeds the devotion and ideals of young people.

12 | The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe

As air conveys the light, and every sound and sight, so Mary conveys the palatable, eternal Son

Just the Poems, Volume the First

For those who want to be spared the substandard commentary, here are the recitations of the first 10 poems considered in the podcast.

10 | That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire...

I am all at once what Christ is, since He was what I am...immortal diamond.