As Kingfishers Catch Fire Resources

The Victorian Web is an awesome collection of articles, biography, and links for further Hopkins reading.

Here's a great quick-start resource for you—a brief bio and some handy links to Hopkins's work.

Looking for a more in-depth treatment of Hopkins's life and work? Look no further.

This video montage is really well-done, a fitting companion to the poem.

The writer and editor shares his reading as part of the Favorite Poem soundtrack.

Here's a pretty impressive performance for the Poetry Out Loud competition.

Tom O'Bedlam's deep tones lend music to this poem.

Here's another take from a Librivox reader.

Here's a piece of music by composer John Mackey, inspired by the poem.

Here's a younger Hopkins in his priest's habit.

Here's Hopkins again, rockin' a beard.

This bird seems to be glowing with intensity. We see where Hopkins got his idea.

If you just can't get enough of the poem's inner workings, check out this article. It's about as thorough as its full title: "The Christian Self: Spiritual Ideals, Religious Symbolism, and Poetic Devices in Hopkins' 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame'"

Get all the good stuff (well, at least the major stuff) right here.