Gerald manley hopkins biography

English poet and Catholic priest (1844–1889)

Gerard Manley HopkinsSJ (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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins: Eccentric Genius in Poetry

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.

Early life and family

Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, Essex^[1] (now in Greater London), as the eldest of probably nine children to Manley and Catherine Hopkins, née Smith.^[2] He was christened at the Anglic gerald manley hopkins biography4 CEV