In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet
of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and
critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors
offer insights into their own work as well as providing an
accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest
poets of our literature. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was born
in Stratford. He attended Balliol College, Oxford where he
befriended the future Poet Laureate Robert Bridges. While at
Balliol he converted to Catholicism and after graduating he entered
the Society of Jesus and was ordained in 1877. Having burned his
early poems on entering the Church, Hopkins eventually took up
writing again but apart from a few poems that appeared in
periodicals he was not published during his own lifetime. Since the
publication of his poems in 1918 he has become one of the best
known poets of the Victorian age and his are among the greatest
poems written on the subject of faith and doubt.
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