The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins died 100 years ago tomorrow. To mark the anniversary, Peter Levi introduces a reading by Alan Rickman of Hopkin's first great poem, dedicated to the five Franciscan nuns who were drowned on 7 December 1875.
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The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins died 100 years ago tomorrow. To mark the anniversary, Peter Levi introduces a reading by Alan Rickman of Hopkin's first great poem, dedicated to the five Franciscan nuns who were drowned on 7 December 1875.
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