Project Description

Photosynthesis & poetry in Gerard Manley Hopkins & Dylan Thomas, Cheltenham Poetry Festival

  • Date:

    Tuesday April 30th

  • Cheltenham Playhouse Theatre
    47-53 Bath Rd,
    Cheltenham
    GL53 7HG

  • Cheltenham Poetry Festival presents

    Let the sunshine in: photosynthesis and poetry in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Dylan Thomas – John Parham

    Taking two poems about photosynthesis: Binsey Poplars (1879) and The force that through the green fuse drives the flower (1933) John Parham explores the scientific interests of Gerald Manley Hopkins and Dylan Thomas and compares Thomas’ darker vision of nature’s destructive tendencies, which anticipate the horrors of climate change, with Hopkins’ religious view.

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