SPRING AND FALL read by Jeremy Northam

Born in 1844 to a wealthy High Anglican family, Hopkins went to Oxford, where he was a star student. In 1866 he converted to Roman Catholicism, and decided to join the priesthood. He is now regarded as one of the Victorian era’s greatest poets using Welsh and Anglo-Saxon traditions to create poems crammed full of repetition and alliteration. The result is poetry bursting with dynamic energy. Spring and Fall read by Jeremy Northam The Great Poets on Naxos Pain