Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89). British poet. He be-came a Roman Catholic at Oxford in 1866 and was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1877. Although he burnt all his early poems when he began to train for the priesthood, he started to write again in 1875. Subsequently he sent his poems to his friend Robert Bridges, who collected them into a posthumous edition, Poems (1918). With their unconventional rhythms and diction, such poems as ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’ influenced many younger poets in the 1920s and 1930s.
