| Front | Gerard Manly Hopkinse |
|---|---|
| Back | 1844 89 Oxford movement The Wreck of Deutschland, dedicated to the memory of five Franciscan nuns drowned with the sinking of the Deutschland in the Thames estuary in 1875 His works dwells chiefly on his spiritual relation with God Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody – particularly his concept of sprung rhythm and use of imagery – established him as an innovative writer of verse. Two of his major themes were nature and religion. Only after his death did Robert Bridges begin to publish a few of Hopkins's mature poems in anthologies, hoping to prepare the way for wider acceptance of his style. By 1930 his work was recognized as being among the most original literary accomplishments of his century. It had a marked influence on such leading 20th-century poets as T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis |
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