Rhyme & Reason

A deep dive into the life and work of important poets, hosted by Andy Patton. Part of The Rabbit Room Podcast Network. (Rabbitroom.com)

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Hopkins: "Binsey Poplars" (Andrew Peterson)
Season one of Rhyme & Reason is finished, but we wanted to share a few bonus episodes featuring some of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s most popular poems that weren’t covered in the main season. We’ve invited Andrew Peterson, songwriter, author, and founder of the Rabbit Room to read them. This is a readi…
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Hopkins: "My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On" (Andrew Peterson)
Season one of Rhyme & Reason is finished, but we wanted to share a few bonus episodes featuring some of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s most popular poems that weren’t covered in the main season. We’ve invited Andrew Peterson, songwriter, author, and founder of the Rabbit Room to read them. This is a readi…
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Hopkins: "Pied Beauty" (Andrew Peterson)
Season one of Rhyme & Reason is finished, but we wanted to share a few bonus episodes featuring some of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s most popular poems that weren’t covered in the main season. We’ve invited Andrew Peterson, songwriter, author, and founder of the Rabbit Room to read them. This is a readi…
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Hopkins: "God’s Grandeur" (Andrew Peterson)
Season one of Rhyme & Reason is finished, but we wanted to share a few bonus episodes featuring some of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s most popular poems. We’ve invited Andrew Peterson, songwriter, author, and founder of the Rabbit Room to read them. Once again, this is a reading of “God's Grandeur.” Mus…
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Hopkins: "The Windhover" (Andrew Peterson)
Season one of Rhyme & Reason is finished, but we wanted to share a few bonus episodes featuring some of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s most popular poems that weren’t covered in the main season. We’ve invited Andrew Peterson, songwriter, author, and founder of the Rabbit Room to read them. This is a readi…
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Hopkins: "Spring and Fall" (Andrew Peterson)
Season one of Rhyme & Reason is finished, but we wanted to share a few bonus episodes featuring some of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s most popular poems that weren’t covered in the main season. We’ve invited Andrew Peterson, songwriter, author, and founder of the Rabbit Room to read them. This is a readi…
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Hopkins: "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day"
It's important to have a sense of what Gerard Manley Hopkins' life was like in his last years to understand why his poetry changed and became darker. He moved to Dublin to work as a teacher in 1884. He felt overworked, underappreciated, and was chronically physically unwell. His residence was in po…
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Hopkins: "The Caged Skylark"
In this season, we’ve talked about the beauty of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ work, but he is also known for poems that plumb the depths of the human experience as well as its heights. Hopkins suffered from several chronic maladies, and there is a darker streak that runs through many of his poems, especi…
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Hopkins: "The Wreck of the Deutschland"
When Gerard Manley Hopkins became a Jesuit in 1868, he burned his poetry and swore off making any more. Then followed nearly a decade of poetic silence, in which he wrote little to no poetry. That is, until a ship called the Deutschland ran aground off the coast of England. Hopkins was so affected …
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Hopkins: "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
One of his most important and beloved poems, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" is a glimpse into Gerard Manley Hopkins' philosophy of life, his way of seeing the world. Central to his approach to poetry, spirituality, and life were concepts he often refers to in his writing—inscape, a thing's "thingness"…
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