J. Alfred's Reviews > God's Grandeur and Other Poems

I got a hardcover of Hopkins, and I have one of those Christmas give-something-old-of-yours away things coming up, so I thought I'd give this one away. So, I read through it again. It rocks so good. Hopkins rocks so good. He's hard to understand at first glance, but after getting more familiar with the way he phrases things, he blows you away. A lot of his poems are just magnificent. Plus, (and I've noticed this with only a couple of other authors, one of them being Shakespeare) after reading him for an extended period, you start thinking in his sort of diction,

meaning, seeming, seeming to mean a rhythm,
a sprung one, a system of meaning in rhyme.

Or something like that.