Poems and Prose

Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his ‘creative violence’ and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus at the age of 24, he burnt all his poetry and ‘resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wish of my superiors.’ The poems, letters, and jou….Read More

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