Gerard Manley Hopkins


 
 

Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844 - June 8, 1889) was a British Victorian poet and Jesuit priest, whose verse has been widely admired for the vividness of its expression.

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Hopkins was born in Stratford, Essex. He was the son of an insurance agent, and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he became a follower of Edward Pusey and a member of the Oxford Movement. It was also at Oxford that he forged the friendship with Robert Bridges which would be of importance in his development as a poet. In 1866, following the example of Newman, he converted to Roman Catholicism, and in 1868 he decided to enter the priesthood. In 1882 he became a teacher at Mount St. Mary's College, Sheffield, and Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, from where he progressed to professor of Greek at University College Dublin, though remaining a priest.


 

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Introduction
Biographical Information
The reintroduction of sprung rhythm to English verse
Hopkins' most famous poems
External links
Musical Adaptations of Hopkins' Poetry
Readings of Hopkins' Poetry
 


 

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