Gerard Manley Hopkins | |
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| Ordination | September 1877 |
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| Born | 28 July 1844 Stratford, Essex, England |
| Died | 8 June 1889 (aged 44) Dublin, Ireland |
| Buried | Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
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| Education | Highgate School |
| Alma mater | Heythrop College, London Balliol College, Oxford |
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame places him among the leading English poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovator, as did his praise of God through vivid use of imagery and nature.
Only after his death did Robert Bridges publish a few of Hopkins's mature poems in anthologies, hoping to prepare for wider acceptance of his style. By 1930 Hopkins's work was seen as one of the most original literary advances of his century. It intrigued such leading 20th-century poets as T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis.