[R. S. Gwynn]

I just finished the third of Anthony Burgess's Enderby (an erratic poet) novels, Enderby's End, or The Clockwork Testament, which deals, in an offhand way, with the reaction to Kubrick's film. Here the plot centers on Enderby's screenplay to Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem, "The Wreck of the Deutschland," which is about the loss of a passenger ship off the English coast; among those lost were five German nuns seeking asylum in the UK. I must admit that I'd started the poem many times but had never finished it; it is very difficult and one would say proto-modern. Well, I have read it now. You might give it a try yourself.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...he-deutschland