Fathering Graces at Hampstead: Manley Hopkins' "The Old Trees" and Gerard Manley Hopkins' Binsey Poplars

Gerard Manley Hopkins' trip to Binsey was triggered by the poem his father sent him on the fate of the Well Walk trees. Nixon reveals for the first time the poem Manley Hopkins wrote and sent his son, the controversy surrounding the development of the Well Walk at Hampstead Heath that occasioned the poem, and the way that controversy contextualized Hampstead's rich natural history and galvanized public protest.