Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Sprung Rhythm: When Poetry Got Tired of Marching and Started Skipping”

Hopkins, Nursery Rhymes, and the Great Metrical Rebellion ABS Believes: Poetic rhythm shouldn’t behave like a parade. It should behave like a toddler on sugar: unpredictable, adorable, and terrifyingly free. The Meter That Misbehaved There are two types of rhythm in this world: The kind that walks into a room, straightens its tie, and recites […]

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3. Late Victorian Poets and the Aesthetic Turn (1860s–1901)

From the Last Glow of Beauty to the First Shadows of Modern Doubt From The Professor’s Desk As the long Victorian century neared its close, the tone of its poetry grew more muted, its certainties more fragile. This was the realm of Late Victorian Poets and the Aesthetic Turn—a moment when verse turned inward, away

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