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Book review: Dappled Beauty: Through Lent with Gerald Manley Hopkins by Carys Walsh

Book review: Dappled Beauty: Through Lent with Gerald Manley Hopkins by Carys Walsh

Thursday, January 29, 2026
FOR those who love poetry, this is an ideal Lent book. Carys Walsh takes a poem a day, sets it in its context, and then draws out its meaning in a close reading of particular phrases and words. Each section is just the right length, giving the rea...