Mount professor to discuss poem

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James Finn Cotter, a professor of English at Mount Saint Mary College, will examine the poem “The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins at the college on Monday, February 25 at noon.
The talk, part of the college’s Investigating Research on Campus (iROC) series, will take place in Room 218 of the Kaplan Family Library and Learning Center in the Dominican Center at the Mount, 330 Powell Ave., Newburgh. It is free and open to the public.

“The Windhover” is a religious poem that begins with a description of nature and ends with Hopkins discussing God’s grace. Cotter, author of Inscape: The Christology and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, will examine the poem through a variety of lenses.

Cotter, the longest serving professor at the Mount, has been an invaluable resource at the college since September of 1963. In his 55 years teaching at the Mount, he has taught in or chaired the Divisions of Humanities, Arts and Letters, and Religious Studies and Philosophy. As a scholar, Cotter brings much to the table.