Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in 1844 and converted to Catholicism at twenty-two, which estranged him from his family; he entered the Jesuits two years later. He then burned his early poems, judging that poetry must yield to his vocation, and fell silent for seven years. He began again at the request of a superior; the Jesuit journal to which he offered a long poem refused it, and nothing appeared in his lifetime. He taught Greek in Dublin, where he was unhappy, and died of typhoid in 1889.

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• PoetryThe Wreck of the DeutschlandGerard Manley Hopkins · 1918LiteraturePublic domain