BORN a century ago, Gerard Manley Hopkins is a ” Yea-Sayer" for our day. Yet general ignorance of him still prevails: I find one standard anthology of modern poetry dating his death 1898 ...

The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-99) shows us ways of handling diversity and unity together. In his poem 'Pied Beauty,' he declares: “Glory be to God for dappled things!” ...

Regarded as one of the greatest and most innovative poets in the English language, Gerard Manley Hopkins's revolutionary work had an influence on T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and W.H. Auden ...

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. The opening line of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem, “God’s Grandeur,” says it all. It says all we need to know about the world in which we’re ...

In 1879, in a letter to Robert Bridges, Gerard Manley Hopkins offered what now reads as a particularly poignant critique of his own writing: “No doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness… Now it is ...

To a non-Irish observer like myself, it does Ireland immense credit that the country has taken Gerard Manley Hopkins so enthusiastically to its heart. It is Ireland, not his native England ...

It has been a long and fruitful relationship, including a doctoral thesis Mariani revised and published as A COMMENTARY ON THE COMPLETE POEMS OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (Cornell University Press ...