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Poems | Gerard Manley Hopkins. Below you will find 37 of Hopkins’s most well-known poems. The text for each is taken from the first edition of his poetry, edited by Robert Bridges and available on Project Gutenberg.
Born in 1844 to a comfortable Anglican family in the London suburb of Stratford, Essex, he was the oldest child of nine, and his father, Manley Hopkins, owned a firm that insured ships against wreck and damage. (His son Gerard later wrote two rather long shipwreck poems!)
1844 –. 1889. Read poems by this poet. Born at Stratford, Essex, England, on July 28, 1844, Gerard Manley Hopkins is regarded as one the Victorian era’s greatest poets. He was raised in a prosperous and artistic family. He attended Balliol College, Oxford, in 1863, where he studied classics.
Welcome to the Official Gerard Manley Hopkins Website. Our purpose is to serve the needs of students, scholars, and Hopkins enthusiasts, especially those who for a long time have loved this poet and his works. This site will connect you with all sorts of needed information including 37 of Hopkins’s poems with study guides, biographical ...
By Ange Mlinko. British Jesuit and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images. I fell in love with “ The Windhover ” when I was a teenager, recognizing right away the rapture of a love poem directed not at a particular person (though the poem is dedicated “To Christ our Lord”) but to life itself.
Gerard Manley Hopkins' legacy to the twentieth century is not just a literary one. Contained by the purged language and innovative technique of this master poet is the fruit of a contemplative beholder of that `Ancient Beauty', who weighed everything against his love of God and desired only to follow His will as Christ did.
Gerard Manley Hopkins was a Victorian-era poet who lived from 1844 to 1889. His poetry had heavy religious influences and a musicality to it. Tragically or poetically, Hopkins only gained recognition for his works long after his death when his close friend Robert Bridges published them.
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