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The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

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“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.”

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Hopkins opens by presenting the natural world as filled with divine presence, establishing the theological vision that governs the poem’s images of damage, renewal and grace.

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“God’s Grandeur,” in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published, Project Gutenberg #22403. Hopkins wrote the sonnet in 1877; it was published posthumously in 1918. The statement is Christian poetic belief, not an empirical description of nature.

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