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Kunitz on his favorite Hopkins Poem


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Made for the Favorite Poem Project, and found on Poems Out Loud via Flavorpill's Daily Dose.

When I first read this poem around 1990, in an overheated classroom on the sleepy campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, I had an uncannily similar experience as Mr. Kunitz did as a young man in 1926, in a Harvard library.

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