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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 (15[1])sandalled.” This poet denoted the essential set of characteristics that differentiates a thing as its “inscape,” an idea derived from Duns Scotus. This poet of “Binsey Poplars”praised (15[1])“the achieve of, the mastery of the thing” in a poem that ends with “blue-bleak embers” that “gash (*) gold-vermilion.” This poet developed a rhythm with a stressed first syllable that is used to imitate natural speech. In a poem by this author, the narrator “caught this morning morning’s minion,” (10[1])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, (10[1])name this Jesuit poet of “The Windhover” and “Pied Beauty.” ■END■

ANSWER: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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