The Windhover The Windhover "The Windhover" is a sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). It was written on May 30, 1877, but not published until 1918, when it was included as part of the collection "Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins". Hopkins dedicated the poem "to Christ our Lord". "Windhover" is another name for the common kestrel ("Falco tinnunculus"). The name refers to the bird's ability to hover in midair while hunting prey. In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air, suggesting that it controls the wind as a man may control a horse. The bird then
The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise in Doris Lessing's novel, "Briefing for a Descent into Hell" (1971). The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise is a 1967 book by Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, comprising two parts - the first a collection of seven articles previously published between 1962 and 1965; the second a free-flowing quasi-autobiographical piece of poetry and prose. The work was inspired in part by Laing’s extensive experimentation with LSD; but also owes a debt (among others) to Gregory Bateson and Jean-Paul Sartre. Laing examines the nature of human experience from a phenomenological