EPISODE · Aug 28, 2026 · 5 MIN
Pied Beauty: Dappled Things
from The Poetry Fix · host Erika Kyba
We tend to think of beauty in terms of purity and proportion, but Hopkins upends those conventional ideas in "Pied Beauty." Instead, he proposes that God "fathers-forth" his beauty in the irregular and variable. Join Erika Kyba for her reading of why Hopkins celebrates sublimity in the strange.
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