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,...

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...

While Gerard Manley Hopkins's importance as a Victorian poet is well established, his significance as a Victorian prose writer is not as fully recognized. This is, perhaps, because his prose did not appear in single works, like John Ruskin's Modern...

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...