A VALUABLE manuscript by one of the greatest poets of the Victorian age will stay in Oxford, it was announced yesterday.

The National Trust has set itself the near impossible task of choosing Britain’s favourite poem about the countryside. UK News Website of the Year 2024 Search Icon ...

The poem was first published in 1918, 30 years after the poet's death. Advertisement Hopkins, who died in 1889 at the age of 44, wrote Binsey Poplars while he was a curate at St Aloysius's Church ...

More than a century ago their fate was the inspiration for Gerard Manley Hopkins, one of Britain's greatest poets. Walking from Oxford to the hamlet of Binsey, two miles to the north, he came ...

'Binsey Poplars' deals with the sadness the speaker feels upon learning that a bunch of his beloved trees have been cut down. It's a breathless poem, if you read it aloud, it's a wailing poem.