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This poet began one poem with the note “felled 1879” and describes how his “aspens dear” were “not spared, not one that dandaled a sandalled.” This poet denoted the essential set of characteristics that differentiates a thing as its “inscape,” an idea derived from Duns (15[1])Scotus. This poet of “Binsey Poplars”praised “the achieve of, (15[1])the mastery of the thing” in a poem that ends with “blue-bleak embers” that “gash (*) gold-vermilion.” This poet (10[1])developed a rhythm (10[1])with a stressed first syllable that is used to imitate natural speech. In a (10[1])poem by (10[1])this author, the narrator “caught this morning morning’s minion,” a “dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon.” This author’s line “Glory be to God for dappled things” is an example of “sprung rhythm.” For 10 points, name this Jesuit poet of “The Windhover” and “Pied Beauty.” ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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