21+ Pied Beauty Poem Background. A curtal sonnet, short and compact, with sprung rhythm and natural imagery. It was written in 1877 and first published in 1918 in poems of gerard manley hopkins.
Beauty gives us pleasure though inspiration.
The same idea is explored throughout the poem as hopkins lists out the dappled things. Poem, or beauty hurts mr. A thing of beauty (endymion) by john keats. Pied beauty, sonnet by gerard manley hopkins, composed in the summer of 1877 and published in 1918 in the posthumous collection poems of gerard manley hopkins.