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Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the three or four greatest poets of the Victorian era. He is regarded by different readers as the greatest Victorian poet of religion, of nature, or of melancholy. However, because his style was so radically different from that of his contemporaries, his best poems were not accepted for publication during his lifetime, and his achievement was not fully recognized until after World War I.
Hopkins's idiosyncratic creativity was the result of interactions with others, beginning with the members of his family. Hopkins's extended family constituted a social environment that made the commitment of an eldest son to religion, language, and art not only possible but also highly probable. His mother, Kate Smith Hopkins (1821-1900), was a devout High Church Anglican who brought up her children to be religious. Hopkins read from the New Testament daily at school to fulfill a promise he... -
Poems By Gerard Manley Hopkins
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire
- Binsey Poplars
- The Caged Skylark
- Carrion Comfort
- Duns Scotus's Oxford
- Felix Randal
- God's Grandeur
- 'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'
- That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection
- 'No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.'
- Pied Beauty
- Spring and Fall
- The Starlight Night
- The Windhover
- The Wreck of the Deutschland
- 'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'
- In the Valley of the Elwy
- At the Wedding March
- Spring
- Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves
- 'My own heart let me more have pity on'
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