Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Gerard Manley Hopkins was a Victorian-era English poet and Jesuit priest renowned for his innovative use of sprung rhythm, vivid imagery, and religious themes that profoundly influenced modern poetry.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins canonical 8

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instanceOf English poet
Jesuit priest
Victorian poet
human
poet
birthDate 1844-07-28
birthPlace Stratford
surface form: Stratford, Essex, England
burialPlace Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
surface form: Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
causeOfDeath typhoid fever
convertedTo Roman Catholicism
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateJoined 1868
dateOfConversion 1866
deathDate 1889-06-08
deathPlace Dublin
surface form: Dublin, Ireland
editorOfPosthumousPoems Robert Bridges
educatedAt Balliol College, Oxford NERFINISHED
Highgate School
employer Royal University of Ireland
University College Dublin
familyName Hopkins
fieldOfWork poetry
prosody
genre lyric poetry
religious poetry
sonnet
givenName Gerard
influenced Dylan Thomas
T. S. Eliot
W. H. Auden
modernist poets
joined Society of Jesus
knownFor innovative prosody
religious poetry
sprung rhythm
vivid imagery
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Society of Jesus
movement Victorian literature
surface form: Victorian poetry

modernist poetry precursor
name Gerard Manley Hopkins self-link
nationality English
notableWork As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Carrion Comfort
God’s Grandeur
Pied Beauty
Spring and Fall
The Windhover
The Wreck of the Deutschland
occupation Jesuit priest
poet
teacher
posthumousPublication Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
posthumousPublicationDate 1918
religion Roman Catholicism
styleCharacteristic alliteration and internal rhyme
dense sound patterns
religious and nature imagery
use of sprung rhythm

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Hart Crane influencedBy Gerard Manley Hopkins
Elizabeth Bishop influencedBy Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins name Gerard Manley Hopkins self-link
Stonyhurst College hasNotableAlumnus Gerard Manley Hopkins
John Berryman influencedBy Gerard Manley Hopkins