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When Was the Windhover Written?

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When Was the Windhover Written?

The Windhover, sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hopkins was influenced by the Welsh language, which he had acquired while studying theology at St Beuno's near St Asaph. The poetic forms of Welsh literature and particularly cynghanedd, with its emphasis on repeating sounds, accorded with his own style and became a prominent feature of his work.
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, completed in May 1877 and collected posthumously in 1918 in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

When was the poem The Windhover written?

Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote "The Windhover" in May, 1877.

What is windhover according to the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins?

The windhover is a bird with the rare ability to hover in the air, essentially flying in place while it scans the ground in search of prey. ... The bird strikes the poet as the darling (“minion”) of the morning, the crown prince (“dauphin”) of the kingdom of daylight, drawn by the dappled colors of dawn.

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