If We're Talking Flagellant Poets, I'll Take This Guy Over Swinburne

Often, one hears Swinburne's ear praised, and usually praised excessively.

I'm much more impressed with Gerard Manley Hopkins when it comes to the ear.

I'll take his sprung rhythm over Swinburne's galliambics and little tired assonances and alliterations.

And it's flagellant versus flagellant!

So it's a fair fight.

It's on like Donkey Kong!

Check these...

Jim Clark did these cool animations of Hopkins.

I love them.

THE DEAD ARE OUR PUPPETS!! YAY!

They're just enough Monty Python to keep it creepy cool and fun.

Someone should do one of these with Billy Collins or Robert Pinsky.

Wait. They're not. Dead.

Yet.

Well. Sorta.