Spencer Gives Reading Of Poetry by Hopkins

In commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English, read eight of the most well-known poems by the English author in Sever 11, Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. All of the poems written by this well-liked British Jesuit were published after his death, late in the nineteenth century.

Among those read were, "Spring and Fall," "Felix Randall," "The Leaden Echo and Golden Echo," "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of Resurrection," "The Windhover," and three sonnets.