Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

By Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Book Id: WPLBN0002954258
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File Size: 141.20 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Author:	Hopkins, Gerard Manley
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Language:	English
Subject:	Poetry, Poetry
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Historic Publication Date:	1918
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Manley Hopkins, B. G., & Bridges, R. (1918). Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate in 1868, he was ordained in 1877. Upon becoming a Jesuit he burned much of his early verse and abandoned the writing of poetry. However, the sinking in 1875 of a German ship carrying five Franciscan nuns, exiles from Germany, inspired him to write one of his most impressive poems “The Wreck of the Deutschland.” Thereafter he produced his best poetry, including “God’s Grandeur,” “The Windhover,” “The Leaden Echo,” and “The Golden Echo.” (Summary by http://www.bartleby.com/people/HopkinsG.html Bartleby )

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Poetry