Approaching T. S. Eliot’s Poetry ........................................................... 128 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ..................................................... 130 Preludes ................................................................................................ 144 Aunt Helen ............................................................................................150 A Game of Chess .................................................................................. 154 Journey of the Magi ............................................................................. 163 Usk ........................................................................................................ 169 Rannoch, by Glencoe ............................................................................ 173 East Coker ..............................................................................................177 An Overview of the Themes in T. S. Eliot’s Poetry ................................181 Important Features of T. S. Eliot’s Language and Style ........................ 186 Writing About T. S. Eliot ....................................................................... 193
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Approaching Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Poetry ....................................... 198 God’s Grandeur .....................................................................................200 As kingfishers catch fire ......................................................................204 Spring ...................................................................................................208 The Windhover ..................................................................................... 212 Pied Beauty .......................................................................................... 216 Inversnaid ............................................................................................220 Felix Randal ..........................................................................................223 I wake and feel the fell of dark ............................................................. 227 No worst, there is none ......................................................................... 231 Thou art indeed just, Lord .....................................................................235 An Overview of the Themes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Poetry ..........239 Important Features of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Language and Style ...243 Writing About Gerard Manley Hopkins .................................................249