Although the English author and Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) wrote no more than 40 mature poems, he is regarded as one of the major English poets. Gerard Manley Hopkins was born at Stratford, Essex, on July 28, 1844, into a talented family wh...

Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the three or four greatest poets of the Victorian era and one of its most original prose writers. He is regarded by different readers as the greatest Victorian poet of religion, of nature, or of melancholy. However, becaus...

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...

The summer my mother had her breasts done, my father started a vegetable garden, and I took advanced seventh grade math with Mr. Azarian, a caramel-colored man from Tehran. The first week Mr. Azarian told us about infinite numbers and how at fifteen he...

A Louisiana Christmas tradition It many sound strange, but I've had meat pies on my mind for a really long time - too long. It started at Thanksgiving about 24 years ago when I noticed an amazing similarity between the family recipe for...